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How Trump’s plan to make Head Start English-only would hit L.A. classrooms

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Meiqian Kuang switches seamlessly between Mandarin and English as she teaches her transitional kindergarten students at Hillcrest Elementary in Monterey Park. Signs in English, Mandarin, Spanish and Vietnamese decorate the classroom, reflecting the most common languages students speak. This dual-language class is also a federally funded Head Start program — long considered a gold standard…