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Ron Unz is the Chairman of Wall Street Analytics, Inc., a Palo Alto-based financial services software company that he founded in 1987. After running a surprise primary challenge to Governor Pete Wilson in 1994, Unz campaigned as a leading opponent of Prop. 187 and was a top featured speaker at a 70,000 person pro-immigrant march in Los Angeles, the largest political rally in California history. In 1997, Unz began the "English for the Children" initiative campaign in California after learning of boycotts by Hispanic parents against Spanish-language programs in the Los Angeles area. He drafted Proposition 227 and led the campaign to qualify and pass the measure on June 2, 1998. Following the passage of the California measure, he assisted Hispanic activists in Arizona in preparing and passing their own anti-bilingual education initiative. He has now established a national advocacy organization, English for the Children, to replace bilingual education with English immersion throughout the country and serves on the advisory board of the Reason Foundation. His writings on issues of immigration, ethnicity, and social policy have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Los Angeles Times, Commentary, The Nation, and various other publications. Unz earned undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University, Cambridge University and Stanford University.