FYI- looking over the Dear Colleague letter on educational policy for ELs and ELs with
Disabilities. The Office for Civil Rights (OCR) at the U.S. Department of Education (ED)
and the Civil Rights Division at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ). I looks like very
similar language as we are seeing in special education around inclusion and full
inclusion…they want them integrated into English speaking classrooms ASAP. Look through at
their examples…I keep thinking a lot of bilingual programs might actually be out of
compliance in an audit. MDB
“We assume that the segregation resulting from a language remediation program would be
minimized to the greatest extent possible and that the programs would have as a goal the
integration of the Spanish-speaking student into the English language classroom as soon as
possible.”).”