The Oregon Ballot Initiative: Following the Money
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Education Week: Erik Sorensen, a spokesman for Causa, an Oregon immigrant-rights group is opposed to one of the Sizemore initiatives and has assisted in bringing to light the way in which this anti-ESL initiative has been funded. Causa is calling the ballot initiative an "anti-ESL instruction initiative." The Statesman Journal, published in Salem, Ore., has characterized it as "an initiative to end bilingual education." The terminology used in the initiative is confusing, but it appears to be putting a cap of two years on all kinds of specialized instruction for ELLs. The initiative has been backed with at least $123,000 from Loren Parks, a wealthy medical manufacturer. There are a number of contributions listed from Democracy Direct, which Mr. Sorensen says is a signature-gathering operation run by Bill Sizemore, who registered the ballot initiative with the state concerning ELL instruction.
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