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| Title | News Article: Texas Bilingual Programs Upheld |
| Body | From http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/DN-bilingual_31tex.ART.State.Edition2.41fb2e2.html State's bilingual programs upheld Judge rejects civil rights groups' arguments that students shortchanged Tuesday, July 31, 2007 By TERRENCE STUTZ AUSTIN – A federal judge on Monday affirmed Texas' bilingual education programs for its 712,000 students with limited English skills, rejecting arguments by leading Hispanic groups that those students are receiving an inferior education in the public schools. U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice ruled that the state's programs for limited-English students comply with federal law and are achieving some success for children in elementary grades. The ruling basically allows public schools to keep educating students who have trouble with English the same way. State and legislative leaders had worried that an adverse ruling could force the state to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more on instruction. Read the entire article at http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/DN-bilingual_31tex.ART.State.Edition2.41fb2e2.html . |
| Source | The Dallas Morning News |
| Inputdate | 2007-08-08 07:24:00 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2007-08-08 07:24:00 |
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| Publishdate | 2007-08-13 00:00:00 |
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