News in Brief: A State Capitals Roundup

After years of wrangling over how--and whether--the state should dictate the way language-minority students are taught, the California legislature last week sent a bilingual-education-reform bill to the governor.

It was unclear whether Gov. Pete Wilson would sign SB 6, which would grant local districts flexibility to use bilingual education or more English-intensive approaches to teach limited-English-proficient students in exchange for increased accountability for the students'...