{"id":31726,"date":"2013-04-25T20:19:03","date_gmt":"2013-04-25T19:19:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/?p=31726"},"modified":"2013-04-25T20:19:03","modified_gmt":"2013-04-25T19:19:03","slug":"20000-students-sue-state-of-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/latest-news\/20000-students-sue-state-of-california\/","title":{"rendered":"20,000 Students Sue State Of California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rinf.com\"><strong>RINF Alternative News<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On behalf of 20,000 students, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have filed a law suit against the state of California for failing to correctly teach\u00a0the English language.<\/p>\n<p>The lawsuit is\u00a0seeking a court order to ensure that students receive the courses they need to learn English, as many have been given low grades and are frequently being held back due to a language barrier.<\/p>\n<p>ACLU attorney Mark Rosenbaum said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;These kids are not getting the differentiated learning they&#8217;re supposed to be getting.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;English learners are falling behind without proper language lessons, even as school districts collect federal funds specifically for that purpose.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Under state and federal law, schools are required to teach non-English speakers the language, but by its own records, the state isn&#8217;t offering English instruction to nearly 20,000 students.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In a statement issued by the Chief Deputy Superintendent of Public Instruction, Richard Zeiger, he pointed out:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;The Department will continue to work with local agencies to ensure compliance with districts&#8217; obligations to provide services to\u00a0Englishlearners.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On behalf of 20,000 students, the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) have filed a law suit against the state of California for failing to correctly teach the English language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31727,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,18],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-31726","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-human-rights","8":"category-latest-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31726","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31726"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31726\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31727"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31726"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31726"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31726"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}