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Federal Policy: A Timeline
1968:
The Bilingual Education Act,
Title VII
Establishes federal policy for bilingual education for language minority students, allocates funds for innovative programs, and recognizes the unique educational disadvantages faced by non-English speaking students.
1964: Civil Rights Act
Title VI prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in the operation of all federally assisted programs
1974: Lau v. Nichols
Another of the lawsuits challenging inadequate instruction for language minorities reached the U.S. Supreme Court. Parents of Chinese ancestry in San Francisco sued over the fact that the city’s school system required mastery of English for high school graduation, but failed to provide some 1,800 non-English-speaking students with special instruction so they could master the language.
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