Asian Americans 6010

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  1. Flower vs. Nicholls was in 1974 Supreme Court case
  2. that examined whether federally funded schools
  3. must offer supplementary english language courses
  4. to non english speaking students.
  5. The case centered on the SAn Francisco Unified School District.
  6. The 1971 decision not to provide 1800 non english speaking
  7. students with a way to improve their english proficiency.
  8. Despite the fact that all public school classes were taught in english,
  9. the Supreme Court ruled that refusing to provide
  10. non english speaking students with supplemental language courses
  11. Violated the California Education Code and Section 601
  12. of the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
  13. The unanimous decision pushed public schools to develop plans to increase the
  14. linguistic skills of students for whom english was a second language,
  15. LaU versus Nichols established a very important principle that became the basis
  16. for the requirement of english as a second language in public schools.