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What is Prop 63?
Established English only as official language in California.
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What is the 1964 Civil Rights Act?
The Act the banned discrimination on the grounds of race, color; or national origin in any program receiving federal financial assistance.
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Who is Mr. Meyer?
The teacher charged, tried, and convicted for teaching in the German language in Nebraska.
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What is the Supreme Court?
Institution that struck down state laws in Oregon in 1922 and 1923 that has mandated English only instruction.
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What is Lau v. Nichols?
The case that ruled that some form of effective educational programming must be available to "open the instruction" to language minority students.
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What is Serna v. Portales Municipal Schools?
The case that plaintiffs where Spanish-surnamed minors represented by their parents and claimed unlawful discrimination from the defendants’ educational program tailored to middle-class students from English speaking families without regard for the educational needs of students from predominantly Spanish speaking households.
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What is the Bilingual Education Act, Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1968?
Accepted legitimacy for and appropriated money to bilingual education on the federal level.
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What is Aspira of New York, Inc. v. Board of Education?
The case that ruled that requiring procedures for parallel examinations to obtain bilingual proficiency estimates on standardized achievement tests.
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What is Structured Immersion and English as a Second Language approach?
The teaching methods the provide for no substantive teaching in the native tongue.
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What is Diana v. State Board of Education?
The court settlement to end English-only language testing of Spanish-speaking children.
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What is Casteñeda v. Pickard?
The case that determined what a violation of Section 1703(f) of the Equal Education Opportunity Act of 1974 was.
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Who is Hakuta and Campbell?
The authors of the summary in the “Washington Update of the Consortium of Social Science Associations” that concluded the traditional bilingual-bicultural education in fact provides for rapid transition to English.
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What is Larry P v. Riles?
The court settlement that forbids IQ testing on African American students because of the tests' cultural biases.
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What is U.S. v. Texas?
A parallel case to Casteñeda v. Pickard that spoke to the responsibility of the the state agency and to the types of programs to be implemented.
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What is Plyer vs. Doe?
The case where the state provides public schooling it cannot deny access to those schools to children who are not legally admitted in to the U.S. and is consistent with the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment.
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