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As of 2005, 111 SPED students are also bilingual. The 163 students that are tuitioned out costs the taxpayers a total of $5,142,189 or $31,547 per student per year.

Bilingual Student Headcounts by School Framingham Schools has 1,898 students who are experiencing difficulty with english or are SPED students. That's 23% of the student population.
Description	Blocks	Barbieri	Brophy	Dunning	Hemenway	McCarthy	Potter Road	Stapleton	Wilson	Cameron	Fuller	Walsh	High School	Alt. High School	Total
Standard	120	224	317	454	494	426	260	426	296	500	524	448	1783	93	6365
2-way bilingual english		172	42									36	41		291
2-way bilingual spanish	10	179	32									48	25		294
Bilingual portuguese	12						100		64		39		18		233
Bilingual spanish			64								22		11		97
Sheltered English/Portuguese							82		90		62		54		288
Sheltered English/Spanish			64								62		16		142
ESL	13	2		54		38					20	68	23		218
SPED .4		43				45		13		23	41				165
SPED .8	7														7
Tuitioned OUT															163
Total	162	620	519	508	494	509	442	439	465	523	770	600	1971	93	8263

My opinion of bilingual education is that there should not be any.  If you are an immigrant and you can't speak English, you should learn how to do so in a hurry.  You have chosen to move to an English speaking country.  The English language is what holds us together as a people.   We should never be advocating teaching students to continue speaking their native language.  Full English immersion is the only option we should consider, immaterial of any asinine state laws.  We are teaching them to be residents of our town.  The spoken and written language in Framingham for the last three hundred (300) years has been English. I do not see Portuguese, Spanish or Swahili as a better alternative to English.  Do you? As of the November 6, 2002 election, english immersion is now the law. We should be able to save quite a bit by getting rid of Portuguese teachers.

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