10 historical events that have shaped multicultural education in the past 50 years.
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First Bilingual and Bicultural public school in the united states
In 1963 The untied states experienced a large quantity of Cuban youth immigrants arrive to Miami. To accommodate these immigrants the United States opened the first bilingual school. This is substantial to multicultural education because it was the first school to accept these students while giving them an environment that sets them up for success. -
Civil Rights Act becomes Law
The Civil Rights act becomes a law. This act forbids discrimination based on sex, religion, race, color, or origin. This changed multicultural education for many reasons one stands out most which is that fact that discrimination became illegal. A student regardless of background or culture was given the same opportunity as every other student. -
Special Education Testing be in Primary Language
In 1970 after the case of Diana v. California State Board it became law, for students who were referred for a special needs program, to be tested in their primary language. This changed multicultural education because the student was not tested on basic english but were allowed to be tested in their primary language, resulting in more accurate diagnosis. -
Refugee Act of 1980
Jimmy Carter signed into law the Refugee Act of 1980 on March 18th. This law was built on the Immigration Act of 1965, it changed the law to admit refugees for humanitarian reasons. There were 3 million refugees in the United States and amongst those were children with special needs. This changed Multicultural education because there was a system set into place to help with the admissions of these students. -
Emergency Immigrant Education Act
The Emergency Immigrant Education Act was set in place to give services and help offset costs for the school districts that have a large number of immigrant students. This act helped multicultural education because it gave schools the financial means to help give these immigrant students the tools for success. -
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990
The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1990 was the first reform to increase the annual immigration to 700,000 which added to the diversity of the schools. This act also provided visas for the families. This helped the multicultural education process by allowing more immigrant children the chance at equal education in this country. -
Illegal Immigrants Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996
President Bill Clinton signs the Illegal Immigration Reform and Immigrant Responsibility Act of 1996 into law on September 30th. This act prohibited states from giving higher education opportunity to children based on their residency within a state. This was substantial to multicultural education because it was giving all children the same chance at education despite where they were living or what neighborhood they were growing up in. -
No Child Left Behind Act
On January 8, 2002 the controversial No Child Left Behind Act was signed into law by President George W. Bush. This law replaces the Bilingual Education Act of 1968. This act held schools responsible for student testing and making yearly progress towards student achievement levels. This act helped multicultural education because there was now a standard for yearly progress ensuring each student was receiving the adequate amount of resources to help them succeed in school. -
Alabama Becomes First State to Check Immigration Status
Alabama becomes the first state to require public schools to check the immigration status of students. It is not the law to require schools to check the immigration status but Alabama despite all prohibits the enrollment of "Illegal Immigrants". This shapes multicultural education because this school now prohibits children without a legal visa from going to school at this school. This mean that other schools bandwagon and join in on the prohibition of illegal immigrants in school. -
President Trump Revokes Gender Neutral Bathrooms
February 22nd President Donald Trump revokes the Obama administrations transgender bathroom directive. This sets back the multicultural education because certain students that might identify as one gender but has the other genders parts in segregated from using the bathroom they identify with.
