Politics of ELL

By: Elizabeth Tolley, Jessica Briante,

Cyan Scarduzio, & Aileen Moore
 Objectives

The students will be able to

a. Assess their knowledge of the Politics of ELL through a Kahoot at the end of the
lesson.

b. Distinguish ELL court cases throughout the lesson and discussion.

c. Formulate their own questions about the Politics of ELL as the lesson advances.
 Videos on ELLs

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combining embedded supports and scaffolds to meet diverse student needs,
actionable data to inform instruction, and success management, to ensure you
get the outcomes you're expecting.
 All children in the United States are
entitled to equal access to a public
elementary and secondary education,
regardless of their or their parents' actual
or perceived national origin, citizenship, or
immigration status.
 In 1970, the Federal Office for Civil
Political History of Rights issued a law providing equal
ELLs educational opportunity to ELLs

This was known as the

Equal Educational Opportunities Act
(EEOA)
 According to the Equal Educational
Opportunities Act...
Identify students as potential ELLs

Assess student's need for ELL services

Develop a program which has a chance for success

Assure that the necessary staff, curricular materials, and facilities are used properly

Develop appropriate evaluation standards (including program exit criteria for measuring
total success)

Assess the success of the program and change it where it is necessary

ELL Funding
States are required to use 15% of their Title III funds under the ESEA for subgrants to
local education agencies (LEA) that have experienced a significant increase in immigrant
students

These funds can be used for improving instruction, providing tutoring and intensified
instruction, and conducting community participation programs

Newly arrived immigrant children may qualify as eligible migratory children on a case-by-
case basis provided they meet the program requirements and fit the program-specific
definition of migratory child
Lau v. Nichols - 1974
Students could not understand the language in which they were being taught
were not provided an equal opportunity
Unanimous Supreme Court decision
It violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964
Congress passed the Equal Educational Opportunity Act (EEOA)
Mendez v. Westminster - 1947
Challenged Mexican remedial schools in Orange County, CA

Mexican adolescents should not attend a separate school

1st federal court decision to strike down segregation in k-12 education

School systems were desegregated

Helped lay groundwork for the legal attack on racial segregation that led to Supreme
Courts 1954 ruling in Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka
Plyler v. Doe - 1982
Landmark Supreme Court Case

States did not want to continue funding for ELL

Attempted to charge illegal immigrants an annual $1,000 for so-called tuition

States cannot constitutionally deny students a free public education on account of their
immigration status
Bilingual Education Act
Title VII added to Elementary and Secondary Education Act of 1965

Title VII: helped children with limited English- speaking ability to provide federal aid
for educational programs, teacher training, development of instruction materials,
and promotion of parent involvement
Types of Bilingual Education

Additive Bilingualism Subtractive Bilingualism

Learning English while preserving and Teaching English to replace the mother
using the mother language language.

Positives: Negatives:

More comfortable with diversity Expensive

Higher divergent thinking Causes slower assimilation

because they can just avoid
American culture
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