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From http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/30/BAIJ191KB0.DTL

Court says English-only tests OK in schools
by Bob Egelko
July 31, 2009

California is entitled to administer school achievement tests and high school exit exams in English to all students, including the nearly 1.6 million who speak limited English, a state appeals court ruled Thursday.

The First District Court of Appeal in San Francisco rejected arguments by bilingual-education groups and nine school districts that English-only exams violate a federal law's requirement that limited-English-speaking students "shall be assessed in a valid and reliable manner."

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