August 26, 2014
California lawmakers took a step Tuesday toward an overhaul of the voter-approved 1998 law requiring English-only instruction in public schools, another victory for Latino legislators seeking to strip away polarizing laws aimed at immigrants.
Legislators passed a proposed ballot measure that would ask voters in two years to dismantle the key English-only mandate of the law and expand multilingual education programs. The measure goes next to Gov. Jerry Brown. Read more...