Judge: Texas bilingual programs comply with law

“A federal judge has 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 Monday that the state’s programs for limited-English students comply with federal law and actually are achieving some success for children in elementary grades.

State and legislative leaders had worried that an adverse ruling from the federal judge could force the state to spend hundreds of millions of dollars more on instruction for limited-English students. The ruling basically allows the public schools to keep educating those students in the same way.”

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