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| | Arizona Republic, January 18, 2000 by O. Ricardo Pimentel (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02) |
 | | We're talking about Arizona's Instrument to Measure Standards (AIMS) test and the requirement that it be given strictly in English beginning with this year's high school sophomores. |
 | | Students in Grades 3, 5 and 8 can take the test once in Spanish, but if you're a recent arrival from, say, Mexico and you're 16 or 17, you are fresh out of luck. |
 | | Exceptional kids will do exceptionally well, but, by and large, this is simply not going to work for your average recent teen-immigrant. |
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