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Teacher Bilingual Instruction and Educational Malpractice: California Teachers Association v. Davis.
Peer reviewedDeMitchell, Todd A. – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2000
As a policy pronouncement, California's Proposition 227 mandates a duty of care that educators owe their students. Failure to teach primarily in English creates a private cause of action against an educator that overcomes legal and policy concerns of "Peter W. v. San Francisco Unified School District." (Contains 57 notes and references.)
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education, Freedom of Speech
