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Bilingual Education Act

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  • ESEA

    ESEA
    Congress passed the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA). Some of the key components of the ESEA are funds, policies, and procedures that target students from low-income families.

  • Invisible minority

    Invisible minority
    In an attempt to address the high drop-out rate among Mexican American students and other issues, among the education of Spanish-speaking children. The National Education Association sponsored a conference in Tucson, Arizona. One result of this conference was an influential report titled The Invisible Minority…pero no vencibles [but undefeatable].

  • Federal Policies

    Federal Policies
    Before 1968, there were no federal educational language policies for ELLs.

  • Bilingual Eduacation Act

    Bilingual Eduacation Act
    Soon after the release of the Invisible Minority report, Senator Ralph Yarbrough of the Texas introduced a bill to provide federal funding for school districts to support bilingual education programs. His bill eventually became the 1968 Bilingual Education Act and entered into federal law as Title VII of the ESEA. The Bilingual Education Act provided grants to school districts and other eligible entities through a competitive grant process.

  • Since 1968

    Since 1968
    the ESEA has undergone six reauthorizations (1974, 1978, 1984, 1988, 1994, and 2001). Each reauthorization resulted in changes to the Bilingual Education Act.

  • NCLB

    NCLB
    Federal policy for language-minority students learning English changed dramatically with the passage of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) and acted as a replacement for the ESEA and Bilingual Education Act was replaced by Title III: Language Instruction for Limited English Proficient and Immigrant Students proposed and sign into law by the George W. Bush administration.

  • Title III: Language Instruction for Limited English Proficient and Immigrant Students

    Title III: Language Instruction for Limited English Proficient and Immigrant Students
    • Provides formula grants to state education agencies.
    • Under Title III, funding for LEP students nearly doubled, and for the first time federal funds for LEP students went to nearly all eligible schools.
    • Title III does not make any distinctions between bilingual and nonbilingual programs.
    • Gives the ultimate authority to each state to determine what programs it will and will not support.

  • Title I: Improving the Achievement of the Economically Disadvantaged

    Title I: Improving the Achievement of the Economically Disadvantaged
    The purpose of Title I is “to ensure that all children have a fair, equal, and significant opportunity to obtain a high quality education and research, at a minimum, proficiency on challenging State academic achievement standards and State academic assessments” (NCLB §3122 (b)).
    • Mandates annual testing of all students in grades 3 through 8, and once while in high school.
    • Requires each state to create its own academic content and achievement standards and assessments to measure those standard