Serving the LEP Student in the Vocational Preparatory Instruction Program
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is no equality of treatment merely by providing students with the
same facilities, textbooks, teachers and curriculum; for students
who do not understand English are effectively foreclosed from any
meaningful education. Basic English skills are at the very core of
what these public schools teach. Imposition of a requirement that,
before a child can effectively participate in the educational program,
he must already have acquired those basic skills is to make a mockery
of public education. - Lau v. Nichols, U.S. Supreme Court, 1974. |
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Language elicits a response
from others, ranging from admiration and respect, to distance and
alienation, to ridicule and scorn. Reactions of the latter type
all too often result from or initiate racial hostility . . . It
may well be, for certain ethnic groups and in some communities,
that proficiency in a particular language, like skin color, should
be treated as a surrogate for race under an equal protection analysis.
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This program was developed by the State of Florida Adult Secondary/GED/VPI Committee of the Practitioners' Task Force, through an Adult Education State Leadership Grant from the Florida Department of Education, Division of Community Colleges and Workforce Education.
Disclaimer: While every effort has been made to ensure the accuracy of this web-based training component, it is not an official publication of the Florida Department of Education.
