The AP (5/31, Hoag, Wozniacka) reports on an ACLU lawsuit filed on behalf of teachers, parents, and students in Dinuba, California, alleging that the local district's "program to teach English to young elementary school children is ineffective and violates the students' constitutional rights." The plaintiffs allege that the district's "grammar-intense curriculum" is "unproven for first- and second-grade children and is causing them to fall far behind in both English learning and in other academic skills." Near the end, the piece notes that last fall, ED "found that California's largest school district, Los Angeles Unified, was violating students' rights by failing to provide an adequate English program."
The Los Angeles Times (5/31, Blume) reports that the lawsuit alleges that "state officials are neglecting their legal obligation to ensure English learners are receiving an adequate and equal education," noting that the case has the potential to reverberate beyond Dinuba. "The suit claims the Dinuba Unified School District in Tulare County is using a substandard, unproven curriculum in a misguided effort to improve the lagging performance of students who have yet to master English."
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