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Bilingual Programs
Bilingual Legislation
Court Cases
The Seal of Biliteracy Initiative
Anti-Bilingual Court Cases
100
This program mainstreams non-native English speaking students into regular English-speaking classrooms
What is Submersion
100
Establishes federal policy for bilingual education for economically disadvantaged language minority students, allocates funds for innovative programs, and recognizes the unique educational disadvantages faced by non-English speaking students.
What is The Bilingual Education Act
100
"This suit by Chinese parents in San Francisco leads to the ruling that identical education does not constitute equal education under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964."
What is Lau v. Nichols
100
An award that validates, certifies and encourages students to pursue and attain high level mastery of two or more languages that granted upon high school graduation to all students with such skill.
What is the Seal of Biliteracy
100
A Colorado school district won against creating a bilingual education program from Mexican American students.
What is Otero v. Mesa County Valley School District
200
This program has students "pulled out" of some other classes in order to receive an English as a second language class
What is ESL Pullout
200
The reauthorization of the Bilingual Education Act to give funds to improve the education of limited English proficient students by assisting children to learn English and meet challenging state academic content and student academic achievement standards
What is No Child Left Behind
200
This suit determined that "Under the Fourteenth Amendment of the U.S. Constitution, the state does not have the right to deny a free public education to undocumented immigrant children."
What is Plyler v. Doe
200
How many states offer the Seal of Biliteracy?
What is 27 states
200
In Colorado the court rejected an ELL plan on the basis that Lau does not mandate bilingual education and that there is no constitutional right to education.
What is Keyes v. School District No. 1
300
This program provides content area support in the native language while teaching the student English.
What is Transitional Bilingual Education
300
Prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in any programs or activities that receive federal financial assistance
What is The Civil Rights Act
300
This suit determined that a "Texas School District's language remediation programs violated the Equal Educational Opportunities Act (EEOA) of 1974, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals formulated a set of basic standards to determine school district compliance with EEOA."
What is Castañeda v. Pickard
300
In what state did the Seal of Bilteracy Initiative start?
What is California
300
Louisiana law mandating that separate but equal" facilities for whites and blacks on and near railroads was allowable.
What is Plessy v. Ferguson
400
This program has the learners transitioned into English content classes, given support in their first language and they receive language arts in their native language.
What is Maintenance Bilingual Education
400
Prohibits discrimination against faculty, staff, and students, including racial segregation of students, and requires school districts to take action to overcome barriers to students' equal participation.
What is the Equal Educational Opportunities Act
400
This test was created to help ensure that school districts were following a set of basic standards to determine school district compliance the Equal Educational Opportunities Act.
What is the Castañeda test
400
This proposition was helped to pass by 6,000 students earning the California Seal of Biliteracy.
What is Proposition 58
400
A ruling that banned the use of rigid formulas that award points based on race for admission to the University of Michigan’s undergraduate program and law school.
What is Gratz v. Bollinger
500
This program has ELL students in maintenance programs while native English speakers in maintenance programs in a second language.
What is Developmental Bilingual
500
This case "ordered the district to create a plan and implement language programs that would help Mexican American students learn English and adjust to American culture and also help Anglo students learn Spanish
What is United States v. Texas
500
This proposition forwarded the English-Only movement and ended bilingual education in California.
What is Proposition 227
500
This case was argued under the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, but the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that there is no fundamental right to an education guaranteed by the Constitution
What is San Antonio Independent School District v. Rodriguez