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Parties Involved in the Case The plaintiffs were the Kinney Kinmon Lau and other non-English-speaking Chinese students. The defendant is the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD).
Date and Place Where the Case Was Tried
The case was tried on December 10, 1973 in a district court of San Francisco, California
The Facts of the Case In 1971, a federal court decree required the San Francisco, California school system to integrate other races/ nationalities (The Public Broadcasting Service, 2015). According to the Public Broadcasting Service (2015), precisely 2,800 Chinese students immigrated to American and enrolled in the San Francisco School system (p.1). The Public Broadcasting Service (2015) explained the each of the 2,800 Chinese …show more content…
The “37% of the 2,856 Chinese-speaking” students in the school district required concentrative instructions to learn the English language (The Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, 2004, p. 1). The remaining percentile of Chinse student did not receive English language assistance. Further, 59% did not receive English language assistance on a daily basis (The Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, 2004, p. 1). Lastly, “bilingual Chinese-speaking teachers” were only available to provide specialized English language instructions 9% of Chinese students (The Asian Pacific American Legal Consortium, 2004 p. …show more content…
In addition, the Court of Appeals agreed with the district court, and affirmed the decision (Constitutional Rights Foundation for Education About Immigration , 2012). The Court of Appeals credited the decision based on the following reasoning: “every student brings to his or her educational career different advantages and disadvantages based on social, economic, and cultural background, which are factors created separately from the school system.” (Constitutional Rights Foundation for Education About Immigration, 2012, para.

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