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Title | Texas Likely to Appeal Bilingual Education Ruling |
Body | From http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/072908dnmetbilingualed.42633b4.html Texas likely to appeal bilingual education ruling By TERRENCE STUTZ and KATHERINE LEAL UNMUTH July 29, 2008 Texas will probably appeal a court ruling mandating a new language program for an estimated 140,000 junior high and high school students who don't have command of the English language, state officials said Monday. The chairmen of the House and Senate education committees said lawmakers were already zeroing in on the problems of limited-English students – including low test scores and high dropout rates – before U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice ruled Friday that the state has failed to properly educate those students. In issuing the surprise decision, the longtime federal judge reversed his own July 2007 ruling that affirmed the state's bilingual education programs. His new order gives the state until Jan. 31 to come up with a different plan. Read the entire article at http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/latestnews/stories/072908dnmetbilingualed.42633b4.html . |
Source | Dallas Morning News |
Inputdate | 2008-08-09 07:08:41 |
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Publishdate | 2008-08-11 00:00:00 |
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