education programs for their student populations.
Democratic government was reintroduced into Spain in 1975 upon the death of Franco (Petherbridge-Hernandez and Raby, 1993, pp. 31-49). A government policy providing for the normalization of the use of regional languages soon followed the change in government. Both the Catalan Statute of Autonomy of 1979 and the Basque Statute of Autonomy of 1979 mandate programs for the attainment of full equity between Castilian and Basque in the Basque Autonomous Region, and between Castilian and Catalan in Catalonia.
Schools in the Basque Region and Catalonia were permitted to adopt Castilian as the language of instruc
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