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Lau v. Nich chols (US Supreme Court Deci cision 1974)
- What the court says
- The failure of school system to provide English language instruction to national
- rigin students who do not speak English, or to provide them with other
adequate instructional procedures, denies them a meaningful opportunity to participate in the public educational program, and thus violates §601 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which bans discrimination based “on the ground of race, color, or national origin,” in “any program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance,” and the implementing regulations of the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare. Pp. 414 U.S. 565-569.
What this law means The Supreme Court stated that these students should be treated with equality among the schools. Among
- ther things, Lau reflects the now-widely accepted
view that a person’s language is so closely intertwined with their national origin (The country someone or their ancestors came from) that language-based discrimination is effectively a proxy for national origin discrimination. Lau Remedies Identifying English Learners Assessing language proficiency Appropriate instructional treatments
Identification Process
1. Upon Enrollment - Home Language Survey 2. WAPT Screening (only used once) 3. Flag on Infinite Campus if LEP is determined 4. Write yearly Language Acquisition Plan and 5. Notify Parents (letter on DOE Site) upon identification (once) 6. Provide English Language Development Instruction with ENL endorsed teacher and Sheltered Instruction in content and self-contained classroom 7. ACCESS Test to determine progress – February 8. Access Score Reports May/June
1. If exiting, Monitoring form and status for two years 2. If not exiting, go back to number 4.
W-APT Cut Scores – Online WIDA Screener (WAPT Kidner)
Training August 8th in Pierre – DOE sponsored
Grades PreK – 1st semester K W-APT 2nd semester K – 1st semester 1st W-APT Grades 1-12 W-APT Grades Prek- 12 MODEL Students with a combined Listening and Speaking raw score
qualify for the ELL program. Students with a combined Listening and Speaking raw score of less than 19 qualify for the ELL program. Or, if a student has a combined Listening and Speaking raw score ranging from 19-28 then the student must be administered the Reading and Writing assessments. If the raw score for Reading is less than 11 OR raw score for Writing is less than 12 then a student qualifies for the ELL program. Students with a composite score lower than 5.0 qualify for ELL services. Students with a composite score lower than 5.0 qualify for ELL services.
