A Better Chance to Learn, Bilingual Bicultural EducationU.S. Commission on Civil Rights, 1975 - 254 pages |
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63rd Leg amended application approved areas Asian Americans assessment August 21 bicultural education programs bilingual bicultural education bilingual bicultural programs Bilingual Education Act bilingual education programs bilingual program child children of limited Chinese Civil Rights Commission on Civil Commissioner concept Court discrimination educational agency effective Elementary and Secondary English language enrolled equal educational opportunity equal protection evaluation experience funds Georgetown University immigrants instruction language development language learning language minority children language minority groups language minority students language proficiency language skills Laws limited English-speaking ability March 18 Mexican American monolingual national origin Native Americans native language Navajo non-English speaking children non-English speaking students parents participate percent program in transitional programs of bilingual public school Puerto Rican Rock Point school district school system second language Sociolinguistic speaking ability Supp teaching tests tion Title VII transitional bilingual education U.S. Commission
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Page 202 - ... nothing herein shall empower any official or court of the United States to issue any order seeking to achieve a racial balance in any school by requiring the transportation of pupils or students from one school to another or one school district to another in order to achieve such racial balance, or otherwise enlarge the existing power of the court to insure compliance with constitutional standards.
Page 183 - ... (b) Payments under this title may be made in installments and in advance or by way of reimbursement, with necessary adjustments on account of overpayments or underpayments.
Page 182 - Federal funds made available under this title for any fiscal year will be so used as to supplement and, to the extent practical, increase the level of funds that would, in the absence of such Federal funds, be made available by the applicant for the purposes described in section 203, and in no case supplant such funds...
Page 21 - 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.
Page 172 - ... instruction given in, and study of, English and, to the extent necessary to allow a child to progress effectively through the educational system...
Page 182 - ... and for keeping such records and for affording such access thereto as the Commissioner may find necessary to assure the correctness and verification of such reports.
Page 184 - institution of higher education" means an educational institution in any State which (1) admits as regular students only persons having a certificate of graduation from a school providing secondary education, or the recognized equivalent of such a certificate, (2) is legally authorized within such State to provide a program of education beyond secondary education...
Page 188 - ... (4) early childhood educational programs related to the purposes of this title and designed to improve the potential for profitable learning activities by children ; (5) adult education programs related to the purposes of this title...
Page 182 - ... provides for such fiscal control and fund accounting procedures as may be necessary to assure proper disbursement of and accounting for Federal funds paid to the applicant under this...
Page 148 - ... saddled with such disabilities, or subjected to such a history of purposeful unequal treatment, or relegated to such a position of political powerlessness as to command extraordinary protection from the majoritarian political process.