The Current Status of Bilingual Education Legislation: An Update. Bilingual Education Series: 9. Papers in Applied Linguistics.

This compendium reproduces all currently effective federal and state legislation, as well as federal court decisions, regarding bilingual education. States are found to fall into one of four categories: (1) those that mandate instruction in English only for public and nonpublic schools (five states); (2) those that mandate English-only instruction for public schools only (two states); (3) those that have no bilingual or English-only provisions (twelve states); and (4) those that have bilingual provisions or that mandate bilingual education (thirty-one states). (JB)