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Carlos Truán  

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  • Carlos Truán is a former Texas senator who wrote House Bill 103, which became the Texas Bilingual Education Act of 1969, one of the first state bilingual measures in the country. He was born in Kingsville, Texas, on June 9, 1935, during the Great Depression; his single mother raised him and his siblings. [Source: Encyclopedia of Bilingual Education; Truán, Carlos (1935-)]

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