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Ohio adopts a bilingual education law allowing German-English instruction at the parent's request
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Federal Officials begin seperating Native Americans children from their families and forced to attend boarding schools off the reservation. Students were punished when caught speaking in their native language.
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Wisconsin and Illinois attempt to institute English-Only schools.
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Nebraska enacted a statute saying "An act relating to the teaching of foreign languages in the state of Nebraska," commonly known as the Siman Act. This prohibited anyone from teaching any language other than the English language. The Nebraska law violated the Due Process clause of the 14th Amendment.
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Bilingual education was virtually eracticated throughout the United States.
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Texas court finds that the school district cannot segregate spanish speaking students but a higher court rules that in order to teach english to spanish speaking students it is necessary to seperate the students.
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Bilingual Education is reborn in Dade County, FL. Cuban immigrants request bilingual schooling for their children
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Congress authorized $7.5 billion to finance 76 bilingual projects.
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Chinese non-english speaking students sue San Fransico Unified School District claining "sink or swim" violated their civil rights
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California rejects bilingual education. It required public schools to teach "limited english proficient," this essentially eliminated bilingual classes.
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Federal funding is availble to support schools in educating english learners.
