Articles > Newspapers > U.S. Newspapers, Major Markets > Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL) articles > May 2002

Article: Segregation complaint filed against Dist. 21.(News)

Article from:
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL)
Article date:
May 14, 2002
Author:
Copyright

Byline: Corrie Cutrer Daily Herald Staff Writer

A parent in Wheeling Township Elementary District 21 has filed a discriminatory complaint against the school board for its proposed boundary change, which she claims will segregate students at Twain Elementary School in Wheeling.

Twain parent Wendy Griffin registered the complaint Friday with the U.S. Department of Education's civil rights office, alleging that the board's decision to transfer 170 bilingual students to Twain next fall will create a school predominately made up of Hispanic students enrolled in bilingual language programs.

Griffin said the boundary change - which the board is ...

Read all of this article with a FREE trial

Related newspaper, magazine, and journal articles:

Article: Bilingual Students' Articulation and Gesticulation ...
Bilingual Research Journal;  July 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... This research focuses on eliciting bilingual students' problem-solving reasoning by ... investigation: (a) How do second-grade bilingual students communicate their mathematical reasoning ... second-grade Spanish-English bilingual students solving addition and subtraction ...

Article: BILINGUAL STUDENTS DO POORLY IN ENGLISH-ONLY ...
Daily News (Los Angeles, CA);  July 22, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... News Staff Writer California's bilingual students scored significantly lower than their ... state's Board of Education. The bilingual students statewide scored nearly 20 percentile ... but it comes as no surprise that bilingual students' scores are lower than other children ...

Article: U-46 works to give bilingual students shorter bus ...
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  May 26, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... close to home next year, a crop of bilingual students in the Elgin area may end up exactly ... will reserve eight classrooms for bilingual students, but that may not be enough to house ... Cabrera is bracing for an influx of 350 bilingual students, and those are just the kids he ...

The effects of stating problems in bilingual students' ...
Journal of Genetic Psychology;  March 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... example, Clarkson (1991) studied bilingual students in Papua New Guinea when they were ... 1999) studied Filipino-English bilingual students who were solving arithmetic word ... 2002) found direct evidence that bilingual students had better comprehension of the word ...

Article: EAST BILINGUAL STUDENTS PERFORMING AT NATIONAL ...
Beacon News, The (Aurora, IL);  November 7, 1997 ;     700+ words ... ... AURORA -- Recent tests show bilingual students in the East Aurora School ... education classes. East's bilingual students performed at or above average ... national-norm test to bilingual students to measure English proficiency ...

Article: WILL COUNTY'S BILINGUAL STUDENTS | PURSUIT OF ...
Herald-News (Joliet, IL);  October 25, 1998 ;     700+ words ... ... In Will County, the majority of bilingual students speak Spanish. But just because ... program. The growth in the number of bilingual students is more rapid in the suburbs than ... programs. In 14 years, the number of bilingual students in the suburbs has grown 191 percent ...

Article: U-46 to shift bilingual students in Bartlett.(News)
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  January 7, 2000 ;     700+ words ...Bilingual students once again might be on the move ... The decision angered parents of bilingual students who wanted their children to remain ... would equally share U-46's bilingual students. The solution will provide relief ...

Article: Shakopee High School helps bilingual students dream ...
Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  October 29, 2008 ;     700+ words ... ... that aims to reduce the number of bilingual students who drop out of high school or don ... district's chief academic officer. Bilingual students also make a strong showing in Advanced ... achieving their potential -- not just bilingual students -- that many Minnesota schools have ...

 
 
Newsweek Harper's Magazine The Washington Post Chicago Tribune Crain's Chicago Business PRNewswire Pediatric News The Nation Advertising Age The Economist (US) A FREE trial gives you access to over 80 million articles! Access over 6,500 publications with a FREE trial!

Find articles, research, and archives