Equal Educational Opportunities Act of 1974: Difference between revisions

This case was a landmark case during which the [[Supreme Court of the United States|U.S&nbsp;Supreme Court]] made one of its first interpretations of the term "appropriate action". In 1974 the court ruled that a school district based in San Francisco had violated the [[Civil Rights Act of 1964]] by denying students of Chinese descent opportunities to participate in classes.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mc3edsupport.org/community/knowledgebases/guiding-federal-court-cases-on-equal-educational-opportunity-11.html |title=''Lau v. Nichols'' |publisher=Mc3edsupport.org |date= |access-date=2012-03-23 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141101041138/http://www.mc3edsupport.org/community/knowledgebases/guiding-federal-court-cases-on-equal-educational-opportunity-11.html |archive-date=November 1, 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The court decided that just providing the students with the same textbooks, desks, and teachers was not sufficient, and measures, such as instruction in both Chinese and English, needed to be taken to make sure that English was taught to non-English speaking students.