Bilingual Education(folder 1), 1977-1978

Copy of Assembly bill amending state education law to provide bilingual education, January 4, 1978; Federal Register publication of Department of Health, Education, and Welfare (HEW) Bilingual Education Program criteria for grants, June 11, 1976; HEW Office for Civil Rights Task Force Findings Specifying Remedies Available for Eliminating Past Educational Practices Ruled Unlawful under Lau v. Nichols, summer 1975; NYSUT Summary Report on Bilingual Education: The Legal Background, September 15, 1977; article reprint, “Bilingual Education: the Legal Mandate,” Harvard Educational Review, May 1977; proposal for Certificate of Specialization in the Teaching of English to Speakers of Other Languages, by a task force of New York State English to Speakers of Other Languages and Bilingual Educators Association, Teachers College, Columbia University, 1978; legal brief, Cintron, et al. v. Brentwood UFSD, et al., and cover memo to NYSUT president Tom Hobart, noting judge’s determination that bilingual program violated Lau guidelines, January 13, 1978