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Brown v. Board of Education
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Ronald ReaganHere, Ronald Reagan signed bill 53 to end the requirenments of teaching education all in English.
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Title VIIIn this Act, President Johnson signed the act that provided funds for school staff and materials for development and parent involvement for students who were not fluent in English.
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https://www.loc.gov/rr/program/bib/ourdocs/14thamendment.html This Amendment of the Constitution served as a basis for educational rights of language minority students. I protected that all people were entitiled to equal rights.
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This prohibited the denial of having access to educational programs due to a student's limited knowledge of English.
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United States v. Texas
In this case, the districts were ordered to create and implement language programs that would help Mexican American students learn English and get used to the American culture. -
Lau v. Nichols
In this event, Chinese American students brought out the case in San Francisco. Students were being put in mainstream classrooms regardless of their level of English. This view was quickly changed. -
This act prohibits discrimination against many things, but in particular, racial segregation of students.
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Aspira v. New YorkThis case mandated transitional bilingual programs for Spanish students that were found to be more proficent in Spanish instead of English.
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This case was significant in Texas. The US Supreme Court reasoned that aliens and their children are people. Even though they are not citizens of the United States. Texas did not feel the need to provide edivdence to fulfill the state interest so the Supreme Court ruled the law unconstitutional and allowed alliens and their children to have a free public education.
