Groups sue, say state comes up short in bilingual education. Texas

Posted on: July 24th, 2006
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“Latino advocacy groups are taking Texas to court, claiming the state’s education agency is failing to enforce a judge’s 35-year-old order to make sure hundreds of thousands of Spanish-speaking students have the same educational opportunities as their peers.

The League of United Latin American Citizens and the American GI Forum filed a motion earlier this year arguing that thousands of Spanish-speaking students are failing standardized tests and dropping out of school because they do not have a working knowledge of English.”

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