Submitted by www.theBulldogS... on Thu 6 Aug at 5:02 PM

English-Only Tests

Last week the courts ruled that the law does not allow for the courts to act as "the official second-guesser" as to the reliability of a state's testing methods concerning No Child Left Behind (NCLB).  The courts ruled essentially that a state should not be burdened with creating native language tests for all its students which could total over 40 different languages.  The court also pointed to a 1998 voter ballot measure that prohibited bilingual instruction except under certain limited conditions. 

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