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Revealing a Hidden History: The Coral Way Elementary School Bilingual Experiment (1962 to 1968)

This partnership between the UF College of Education’s Bilingual Education Program, the George A. Smathers Libraries, staff members at Coral Way Elementary School, and The American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora presented two programs to share the story of the first public bilingual school in the country: Coral Way Elementary School in Miami, Florida founded in 1963.