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An elementary school teacher in Santa Ana, Ms. Tuchman has
specialized for over thirty years in teaching students limited in their English proficiency. She
has served on a number of state and national boards and commissions dealing with issues of
educational reform, and twice was elected president of her local school board. As a child in a
Mexican-American family living in rural Texas, she was a central plaintiff in a desegregation
lawsuit under which her Texas town was forced to open its public facilities to children of all
ethnic backgrounds. Her step-father later served as National President of LULAC (the League
of United Latin American Citizens), and she herself was honored as LULAC Woman of the
Year in 1988. She serves as Chair of REBILLED, the Committee to Reform Bi-Lingual
Education.
(4) The politics of bilingual education,
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