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New Hampshire State Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights. – 1982
This report of the New Hampshire Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights contends that the Manchester, New Hampshire, school department has failed to provide adequate bilingual instruction for language minority students in that district, as specified by the provisions of Title VI and the "Lau v. Nichols" decision. It…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Compliance (Legal), Educational Discrimination, Elementary Secondary Education
Maine State Dept. of Educational and Cultural Services, Augusta. – 1976
Lau vs Nichols is a 1974 Supreme Court decision which charged that the San Francisco Unified School District had denied equal educational opportunity to non-English-speaking students by failing to provide them with any special language instruction. The court decision was based on Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 which provides against…
Descriptors: Bilingual Education, Bilingual Education Programs, Court Litigation, Elementary Secondary Education
