Bilingual education can open the doors to endless possibilities for the future. Margarita Muniz was an educator in the Greater Boston Area who, like many before her, continued the fight to bring bilingual education to the Boston Public Schools.

As the principal of the Rafael Hernandez School, she was able to keep the two-way bilingual program when the state of Massachusetts voted for only English back in 2002. Muniz played a vital role in the dual language bilingual program in Massachusetts, so much so that the Margarita Muniz Academy later opened in her honor.

Dos Idiomas, Una Comunidad (Two Languages, One Community) is a documentary that sheds light on Margarita Muniz’s story and shows how she played a part in the big picture that includes the racial and political challenges of educating bilingual children in Massachusetts, beginning with the desegregation case of the 1970s.

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