Bilingual Educational Timeline

By jptores98

  • 1700

    1700
    European immigrants settle and began to run their

    own non-English-speaking schools

  • 1751

    1751
    Ben Franklin writes of concern that Pennsylvania will become a German colony. He states, “instead of learning our language, we must learn theirs, or live as in a foreign country.”

  • 1839

    1839
    Ohio is the first state to adopt a bilingual education law.

  • 1864

    1864
    Congress did not allow Native Americans to be taught
    their own languages

  • 1906-1917

    1906-1917
    Congress passes the first federal language law

    The US enters WWI, spurring a wave of language

    restriction in schools

  • 1968

    1968
    Congress passes the Bilingual Act of 1968

  • 1975

    1975
    The National Association for Bilingual Education is developed

  • 1980

    1980
    The anti-bilingual ordinance was passed in Florida by voters in Dade County.

  • 1994

    1994
    Proposition 187 (California)
    Proposition 187 is introduced to deny illegal immigrants health care, social services, and public education.

  • 1998

    1998
    Proposition 227 says that all California students must be taught in English as rapidly as possible. The proposition places non-English speaking students in a short-term English immersion program.

  • 2001

    2001
    No Child Left Behind Act
    The act was originally the Bilingual Education/Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1964-5.