OCR Seen as Unbiased On Bilingual Ed. Issue
The vast majority of school districts that dealt with the U.S. Department of Education's office for civil rights during the Clinton administration do not believe its staff members favored bilingual education over English-based instruction, a federal government report shows.
As the debate has intensified over using English-immersion or bilingual education programs to teach limited-English-proficient students, the OCR, the federal office charged with ensuring that school districts meet LEP students' needs, often has been cast as a biased guardian.
But in a report released Feb. 23, the U.S. General Accounting Office found that 77 percent of 245 districts involved in compliance agreements with the OCR from 1992 to 1998 reported that they did not feel pressured to implement...
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