Abstract
A telephone survey of 179 randomly selected individuals in New Haven was conducted in order to assess perceptions and opinions about the local bilingual education program. An additional 37 Spanish-speaking individuals, representing the language group serviced by the bilingual program, were interviewed in Spanish. Results showed that people had few misconceptions about the bilingual education program in terms of its goals, the average length that children remain in the program, and the proportion of the Hispanic children who are in the program; that more people favored a transitional model over maintenance of Spanish, but that there was still considerable support for maintenance; that a large proportion of the people felt bilingual education to be the best way for Spanish-speaking children to learn English, and that funding should be increased; that negative attitude towards bilingual education was related to being male, being in the generation currently in their fifties or older, and being from a home bac...
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