- Budget woes frustrate foreign language goals (Washington Post)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/16/AR2009111603611.html
Information that may be useful/benefitial for teahers of Japanese language in the U.S. (Some of the contents may rather be aginst language education, which I hope you will use to think about your counter argument.)