Texas probably will appeal ruling about bilingual education

[Francis Hult]

Dallas News

 

Texas probably will appeal ruling about bilingual education

 

Texas will probably appeal a court ruling mandating a new language program for an estimated 140,000 junior high and high school students who don't have command of the English language, state officials said Monday. 

 

Legislative leaders said curriculum improvements for that group of mostly Hispanic students are probably on the way regardless of the appeal. 

 

The chairmen of the House and Senate education committees said lawmakers were already zeroing in on the problems of limited-English students - including low test scores and high dropout rates - before U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice ruled Friday that the state has failed to properly educate those students.

 

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