CARDENAS CREDITS PARENTS AS HE GETS EDUCATION AWARD.Byline: Donna Huffaker Staff Writer Praising his parents for their hard work and sacrifices, a state assemblyman on Saturday accepted the Special Recognition Award from the California Association for Bilingual Education bilingual education, the sanctioned use of more than one language in U.S. education. The Bilingual Education Act (1968), combined with a Supreme Court decision (1974) mandating help for students with limited English proficiency, requires instruction in the native . Tony Cardenas Tony Cardenas served in the California State Assembly. In the Assembly, he had the powerful position of chair of the Budget Committee. He is now a Los Angeles City Councilman, representing the 6th district, which includes parts of the San Fernando Valley. , D-Panorama City, the Assembly Budget Committee chairman, started to cry while addressing hundreds of teachers at the Los Angeles Convention Center The Los Angeles Convention Center (abbreviated LACC) is a convention center in downtown Los Angeles. The LACC hosts annual events such as the Greater Los Angeles Auto Show, and was best known to video games fans as host to E3 until its cessation in 2006. . ``My parents came to this country with only a first- and second-grade education. They took heart teaching us how to be good sons and daughters and mothers and fathers, and made sure we got an education every child deserves,'' he said in English, his voice cracking. Cardenas, who was praised for his heartfelt efforts on behalf of bilingual education, spoke to the crowd first in Spanish. CABE CABE Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment (London, England) CABE California Association for Bilingual Education CABE Connecticut Association of Boards of Education CABE Canadian Association of Business Economists lobbyist Martha Zaragoza described Cardenas as a champion for educational excellence, pushing bilingual education even when it seemed politically incorrect. The youngest of 11 children, Cardenas grew up modestly in the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , she said. He graduated from the University of California The University of California has a combined student body of more than 191,000 students, over 1,340,000 living alumni, and a combined systemwide and campus endowment of just over $7.3 billion (8th largest in the United States). at Santa Barbara with a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering. After college, he worked for Hewlett Packard and later became president of a real estate company. Voters elected Cardenas to California's 39th Assembly District in 1996 and re-elected him in November. During his first year, Cardenas was the only freshman legislator to acquire seats on both the Assembly appropriations and budget committees. In June 2000, he was named chairman of the assembly budget committee, where he oversees the state's $100 billion budget, she said. He has fought for all children to have greater accessibility to education and the availability of appropriate textbooks for all students. Although Cardenas' parents received little education, they made sure their children went to school, he said, adding that his siblings have earned doctorate and bachelor's degrees. Some are teachers. Choking back tears, Cardenas implored the roomful of educators to remember that the parents of children in their classrooms love them, even if they don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. how to encourage education. ``They have entrusted you with the greatest gift anyone could have ever given them - their children,'' he said through a round of applause. |
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