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Contains 28 Results:

Joe J. Bernal Part 1, March 22 1979, April 30 1979

 Item — Box: 1, Cassette: 16, Side: A
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2017-043, Dr. José E. Vega Bilingual Education Recordings / Interviews
Dates: March 22 1979; April 30 1979
Scope and Contents This recording is part 1 of 2 of an interview with Joe J. Bernal on April 30, 1979. Bernal discusses the failed HB 719 from 1967 and clarifies that the bill was not related to bilingual education but rather just the teaching of the Spanish language. Bernal also describes how the government aims to make leaders quiet through acquiescence, citing Hector P. Garcia as changing from a vocal militant to a deal maker.First recording from 3/22/1979 begins at 0:00 and ends at 31:51....

Carlos Truan Part 1, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Cassette: 8, Side: A
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2017-043, Dr. José E. Vega Bilingual Education Recordings / Interviews
Dates: undated
Scope and Contents This recording is part 1 of 2 of an interview with Carlos Truan in the early 1980s. Truan relates the events of the past legislative session in 1981 regarding bilingual education, including SB 477. Truan also states that he cannot count on the TEA staff and that Commissioner Bowen was against bilingual education. Additionally Severo Gomez has remained passive instead of taking a leadership role in promoting bilingual education. Overall, Truan describes the TEA as an agency that does no more...

Carlos Truan Part 2, undated

 Item — Box: 1, Cassette: 8, Side: B
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2017-043, Dr. José E. Vega Bilingual Education Recordings / Interviews
Dates: undated
Scope and Contents The first recording on this tape is part 2 of 2 of an interview with Carlos F. Truan in the early 1980s. Truan plans to assign his assistant Jesse Bernal with compiling the additional information Jose Vega needs from Truan to complete his book. Truan relates his fears about the future of bilingual education. The legislature had given the state board the authority to determine criteria to identify students that should be enrolled in the bilingual education program, however the board has given...

State Bill 96 & State Bill 105 Part 1-2, February 19, 1975

 Item — Box: 1, Cassette: 1
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2017-043, Dr. José E. Vega Bilingual Education Recordings / Texas Senate Hearings
Dates: Other: February 19, 1975
Scope and Contents This recording is part one of two of a Texas Senate Education Committee hearing held on February 19, 1975. Chet Brooks presents his bill SB 102 and fellow senator Jack Ogg's bill SB 96, both regarding bilingual education in Texas. Brooks addresses that the bilingual education laws enacted by the Texas legislature in 1973 were passed before the kindergarten education level was added to Texas schooling. Because bilingual education should start at the first point of contact with children in the...

Ernesto Bernal, February 14 1979

 Item — Box: 1, Cassette: 2, Side: A
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2017-043, Dr. José E. Vega Bilingual Education Recordings / Interviews
Dates: February 14 1979
Scope and Contents Ernesto Bernal cites federal initiatives as a large influence towards passing bilingual education legislation in Texas. Under the Johnson administration in 1969, federal funding for bilingual education became available, thus creating an incentive to create bilingual education programs to receive federal money. However, federal court cases had less of an impact. Bernal argues that state government responds to federal cases only when it's convenient to do so. Otherwise, state government and...

Severo Gomez Part 1, February 14 1979

 Item — Box: 1, Cassette: 3, Side: A
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2017-043, Dr. José E. Vega Bilingual Education Recordings / Interviews
Dates: February 14 1979
Scope and Contents This recording is part 1 of 2 of an interview with Severo Gomez on February 14, 1979. Severo Gomez was the first Hispanic to serve on the board at the Texas Education Agency in 1960. Gomez and W. R. Goodson from the American Schools Overseas in Latin America department coordinated an international education program between Latin American countries and Alabama, Louisiana, Tennessee and Texas. During this program, Texas was connected with Guatemala in which Texas exchanged assistance with...

Jose Camacho and Michelle Gus Zamora Part 1, February 15 1979

 Item — Box: 1, Cassette: 4, Side: B
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2017-043, Dr. José E. Vega Bilingual Education Recordings / Interviews
Dates: February 15 1979
Scope and Contents This recording is part 1 of 2 of a conversation with Jose Camacho and Michelle Gus Zamora recalling their times working with Carlos Truan and Chet Brooks on bilingual education legislation. During the 1971 legislative session, Truan was not recognized by Speaker of the House Gus Mutscher because of his membership in the Dirty 30 in the wake of the Sharpstown Scandal. Truan and Brook's mandatory bilingual program legislation passed in 1973, and in 1974 Zamora began to work with Chet Brooks to...

Humberto Tati Santiesteban, February 15 1979

 Item — Box: 1, Cassette: 2, Side: B
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2017-043, Dr. José E. Vega Bilingual Education Recordings / Interviews
Dates: February 15 1979
Scope and Contents Former Texas legislator Humberto Tati Santiesteban describes how in the wake of the Sharpstown Scandal, House representatives in 1971 formed a group against Speaker of the House Gus Mutscher called the Dirty 30. Because Carlos Truan was a member of the Dirty 30, Mutscher refused to acknowledge Truan on the House floor for his bilingual education bill. Truan claimed that if his bill did not pass, it was Mutscher's fault, however Santiesteban counters that if Truan had denied himself the pride...

J.W. Edgar Part 1, February 15 1979

 Item — Box: 1, Cassette: 5, Side: A
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2017-043, Dr. José E. Vega Bilingual Education Recordings / Interviews
Dates: February 15 1979
Scope and Contents This recording is part 1 of 2 of an interview with J. W. Edgar on February 15, 1979. J. W. Edgar reflects on the political and legislative context for the introduction of bilingual education bills, but points out that the major reason bilingual education bills passed was due to the increase of representatives that supported such legislation. Other factors such as court cases against segregation, the HEW memorandum, and other events may have had an affect on the bills' passages, but not a...

Roger de los Santos, February 16 1979

 Item — Box: 1, Cassette: 6, Side: A
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2017-043, Dr. José E. Vega Bilingual Education Recordings / Interviews
Dates: February 16 1979
Scope and Contents Roger de los Santos discusses the opposition to bilingual education programs. He explains that educators and administrators saw bilingual education as a threat to the community and education system. They did not want to become aware of English-deficient children's needs and accommodate them, preferring to rather have the children fit into the current educational system. Additionally, the reinforcement of Spanish as an inferior language and the sentiments of people in American should speak...

Joe J. Bernal Part 1, February 19 1979

 Item — Box: 1, Cassette: 6, Side: B
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2017-043, Dr. José E. Vega Bilingual Education Recordings / Interviews
Dates: February 19 1979
Scope and Contents This recording is part 1 of 2 of an interview with Joe J. Bernal on February 19, 1979. Former Senator Joe J. Bernal recalls how the Texas Education Agency and Dr. J. W. Edgar responded to bilingual education legislation. To Bernal, Dr. Edgar in his mind was progressive enough to do things that were new and found him to be agreeable to bilingual education. However, Dr. Edgar was cautious to move into any issues that lacked legal precedence. Bernal also points out that the law against...

Joe J. Bernal Part 2, February 19 1979

 Item — Box: 1, Cassette: 7, Side: A
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2017-043, Dr. José E. Vega Bilingual Education Recordings / Interviews
Dates: February 19 1979
Scope and Contents This recording is part 2 of 2 of an interview with Joe J. Bernal on February 19, 1979. Former Senator Joe J. Bernal discusses how Carlos Truan and himself were pro-civil rights, and thus against the Texas establishment. Speaker of the House Gus Mutscher however, was particularly pro-lobbyist and pro-establishment. Due to the Sharpstown Scandal and the formation of the Dirty 30 group, Truan and Mutscher were at odds. Mutscher inevitably was indicted and new leadership came to power in the...

Carlos Truan Part 1, February 20 1979

 Item — Box: 1, Cassette: 7, Side: B
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2017-043, Dr. José E. Vega Bilingual Education Recordings / Interviews
Dates: February 20 1979
Scope and Contents This recording is part 1 of 3 of an interview with Carlos F. Truan conducted on February 20, 1979. Truan recounts growing up in south Texas and going to an all Mexican school where speaking Spanish was punished. Always active in school activities such as sports and student council, Truan valued their competitive nature and foundation for working with others. After graduating from Texas A&I in Kingsville and starting to sell insurance in Corpus Christi, Truan became more aware of...

Carlos Truan Part 2, February 20 1979

 Item — Box: 1, Cassette: 9, Side: A
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2017-043, Dr. José E. Vega Bilingual Education Recordings / Interviews
Dates: February 20 1979
Scope and Contents This recording is part 2 of 3 of an interview with Carlos F .Truan conducted on February 20, 1979. Truan states that after he had been elected, Severo Gomez from the TEA had asked him to become part of an advisory committee on bilingual education to draft recommendations to the legislature. The Texas State Teachers' Association remained mostly on the sidelines until Representative Menton Murray presented a bill identical to that of Truan's. Truan believes that TSTA wanted to take the bill...

Carlos Truan Part 3, February 20 1979

 Item — Box: 1, Cassette: 9, Side: B
Found in: University of Houston Libraries Special Collections / 2017-043, Dr. José E. Vega Bilingual Education Recordings / Interviews
Dates: February 20 1979
Scope and Contents From the Series:

Series 2 of the collection consists of interviews conducted by Dr. Jose E. Vega throughout 1979. All but one of the interviews discuss federal and state policy and legislation relevant to bilingual education throughout the 1960s and 1970s. Of note are the interviews by Senator Carlos F. Truan, Sentor Chet Brooks, Hector P. Garcia of the American G.I. Forum, and Rudy Flores, former assistant to Governor Dolph Briscoe.