Spain Attempts to Increase its Citizens' English Proficiency, Starting with Children

With an unemployment rate of twenty percent, Spain is faring quite poorly economically. According to the New York Times, in an effort to prepare Spanish children to one day compete in this increasingly inter-connected world, the Madrid school system has made "about a third of the primary state schools bilingual [Spanish/English]" and plans to increase that fraction with time. I usually don't like instances where the primary motivation for learning another language is economical; however, so long as a nation or people continue to nurture their language in addition to acquiring and appreciating another, I don't see a problem with this. I don't say this coming from a nationalistic standpoint (that is the last trait I'd use to define myself), but from mentality that highly values linguistic diversity.