This story was originally published by the Centro de Periodismo Investigativo. Kisha Cedeño recalls being 12 years old when she first felt embarrassed by her lack of Spanish proficiency. She was in sixth grade at Juan Pablo Duarte School in Washington Heights, New York, and was assigned to write and pronounce a word in Spanish […]

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