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Coral Way Bilingual Elementary School

Coral Way Elementary School in Dade County, Florida, is considered to be the first public school bilingual bicultural education program for both English and Spanish speakers in the United States. It began as a way to accommodate the thousands of children of Cuban refugee families that streamed into southern Florida at the time of and just after the Castro’s Cuban revolution of 1959 and was subsidized by authorities.

Alejandro Perez, Cristina Vasquez, Eduardo Carballo and Nadania Vega: interview with Coral Way staff members

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Interview with Coral Way staff members: Alejandro Perez, Principal at the time of the interview; Cristina Vasquez, K-5 Lower Academy Lead Teacher at the time of the interview; Eduardo Carballo, 6-8 Upper Academy Lead Teacher at the time of the interview; Nadania Vega, former principal. Length: 1:09:51
Interviewee
Perez, Alejandro
Vasquez, Cristina
Carballo, Eduardo
Vega, Nadania

Coral Way Bilingual Elementary School: Oral History Collection

This collection contains the audio files and transcripts of oral history interviews with 19 individuals associated with Coral Way Bilingual Elementary School. These individuals were associated with Coral Way in the early days of the bilingual program in the 1960's or at the time of the interviews in 2008.

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