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Appendix A: Bilingual Education in the United States
Appendix A: Bilingual Education in the United States
Pages 107-112
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, to provide a long-range context for He current controversies about bilingual education: Although Federal involvement with bilingual education in the United States began with We passage of the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, an amendment to Title VII of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, it has its roots in early nineteenth-century America In Me public schools of a number of states between 1839 and 1880, including Ohio, Louisiana, and New Mexico, German, French and Spanish were used forinstruction.
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In a memorandum dated May 2S, 1970, the Office for Civil Rights ire the former Department of Health, Education, and Welfare advised school districts of their responsibility to provide special language services to limited English proficient students under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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In a more recent estimate, the state education agencies receiving Title VII funding reported in school year 1989-90 a count of about 2.2 million limited English proficient students, including 227,000 limited English proficient students in Puerto Rico and the outlying territories and associated republics. The population of LEP students has not remained constant throughout the United States.
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Two states reported notable decreases in LEP populations between school years 1988-89 and 1989-90: 30 percept in Louisiana, 28 percent in Tennessee. Differences in criteria utilized in identifying LEP students, and Improved counting procedures, may account for some of the dramatic changes, but there may be additional causes.
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The Supreme Court ruled that "there is no equality of treatment merely by providing students with the same facilities, textbooks, teachers, and curriculum; for students who do not understand English are effectively foreclosed from any meaningful education." Regarding remedies the Court ruled that "no specific remedy is urged upon us. Teaching English to the students of Chinese ancestry who do not speak the language is one choice.
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1983 "National Longitudinal Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Services to Language Minont:y, LEP Students" begun 9/20/83 through 9/88; fiscal year 1983 funds of $1,505,000. 1984 Reauthorization of Bilingual Education Act reserved 4-10 percent of total appropriations for Special Alternative Instructional Programs that do not require inspection in native language.
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