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on 3/15/03 8:09 PM, Abdiel OAbdiel at abdieloabdiel at yahoo.com wrote:

> Understanding  the the contributions of
> Chinese-Americans to civil rights is critical to the
> story. Having no democratic legal system in their
> homeland, and because many other factors (Cultural and
> Historical and so on) Chinese-Americans  tend to "take
> care of their own problems,"  but Chinese-American
> contribution to the US legal system is an amazing
> sucess story. 
> 
Once again, I find myself strangely in agreement with you. How do you feel
about "mainstreaming", MCAS, and a foul creature named "Mitt Romney"?

Joe
> 
> 
> 
> Lau v. Nichols  (excerpts) 414 U.S. 563 (1974)
> 
> When children arrive in school with little or no
> English-speaking ability, "sink or swim" instruction
> is a violation of their civil rights, according to the
> U.S. Supreme Court in this 1974 decision. Lau remains
> the major precedent regarding the educational rights
> of language minorities, although it is grounded in
> statute (Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964),
> rather than in the U.S. Constitution. At issue was
> whether school administrators may meet their
> obligation to provide equal educational opportunities
> merely by treating all students the same, or whether
> they must offer special help for students unable to
> understand English. Lower federal courts had absolved
> the San Francisco school district of any
> responsibility for minority children's "language
> deficiency." But a unanimous Supreme Court disagreed.
> Its ruling opened a new era in federal civil rights
> enforcement under the so-called "Lau Remedies." The
> decision was delivered by Justice William O. Douglas
> on January 21, 1974.
> 
> 
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