Abstract
Although the first federal legislation for bilingual education in the United States was the Bilingual Education Act of 1968, federal involvement 201 found that Chinese-American, non-English-speaking students were denied equal educational opportunity under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act when instructed in English, a language they did not understand. The Court ordered that schools must rectify the language deficiency, but did not specify how that should be accomplished. Regardless of the remedy chosen, however, the Court made it clear that the federal government had a responsibility to ensure that school districts receiving federal funds provided appropriate services to minority-language children.
