News From the Border

Providing the news from a different front but from a war that we must win as well! I recognize the poverty and desperate conditions that many Latinos live in. We, as the USA, have a responsibility to do as much as we can to reach out to aid and assist spiritually with the Gospel and naturally with training, technology and resources. But poverty gives no one the right to break the laws of another sovereign nation.

Monday, July 24, 2006

Groups sue, say state comes up short in bilingual education

By Brandi Grissom / Austin Bureau
El Paso Times

AUSTIN -- Latino advocacy groups are taking Texas to court, claiming the state's education agency is failing to enforce a judge's 35-year-old order to make sure hundreds of thousands of Spanish-speaking students have the same educational opportunities as their peers.

The League of United Latin American Citizens and the American GI Forum filed a motion earlier this year arguing that thousands of Spanish-speaking students are failing standardized tests and dropping out of school because they do not have a working knowledge of English.

The groups want a judge to order the Texas Education Agency to more closely observe and evaluate bilingual programs to make sure students with limited English skills get the same quality education and opportunities as students who speak the language fluently.

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