Massachusetts Question 2, 2002

Massachusetts Ballot Question 2 (2002) replaced Massachusetts education law providing for transitional bilingual education in public schools with a law requiring that all public school children be taught all subjects in English and be placed in English language classrooms, except under special circumstances.[1] Opponents of the proposition said that the law would allow teachers to be personally sued for teaching in a language other than English, and the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Committee on Education, Arts and Humanities rejected the petition,[2] but it was approved into law by seventy percent of the voters.[3]

References

  1. Massachusetts Law
  2. Official Massachusetts Information for Voters
  3. STEVE SAILER, UPI National Correspondent (November 6, 2002). "Anti-Bilingualism Wins in Massachusetts". United Press International. Retrieved July 14, 2010.
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