Supreme Court strikes a blow against minority language rights

Dennis Baron debaron at ILLINOIS.EDU
Sun Jun 28 16:34:58 UTC 2009


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Supreme Court strikes a blow against minority language rights

In a blow against minority language rights, the Supreme Court has
ruled in the case of Horne v. Flores that the federal government must
stop monitoring how the state of Arizona teaches its non-English-
speaking students, despite evidence that these students continue to do
much worse than their English-speaking peers in school.

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