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Bilingual Education
Bilingual Education is a strategy of instructions designed to provide effective
education in a students native language while learning English. Federal support for
bilingual education began in 1968 through an amendment to the Elementary and
Secondary Education Act of 1965. The Bilingual Education Act prompted school
districts to implement educational programs for language minority students. In the
1974 ruling of Lau v. Nichols the Supreme Court ruled “there is no equity of
treatment merely by providing students with the same facilities, textbooks, teachers,
and curriculum; for students who do not understand English are effectivly foreclosed
from any meaningful education”
In 1988 major amendments to the Bilingual Education Act were made. These
changes provided additional funding for English–only immersion programs similar
to those employed in the first have of the century. They specified percentages of
funding to be spent on alternative instruction programs, developmental bilingual
education programs, programs of academic excellence, family literacy programs,
and programs fro special populations. This act limited attendance in bilingual
programs to three years.
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