[EDLING:331] Judge rules Texas ESL programs 'adequate'

[Francis M. Hult]

Houston Chronicle

Judge rules Texas ESL programs 'adequate'

AUSTIN — A federal judge Monday denied an effort by civil rights groups to 
force changes in the way Texas handles bilingual education, finding that the 
state is in line with federal law.

"On the facts before it, the court concludes that TEA's (the Texas Education 
Agency's) education theory is sound, and its implementation and enforcement of 
the bilingual/ ESL (English as a Second Language) program is adequate under 
federal law," wrote U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice. "TEA's 
implementation of the program at the elementary level is yielding promising 
preliminary results."


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