Equal Protection for English Language Learners Equal protection is a right of the people including students in school. The Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution is what has enabled this right. The Equal Protection Clause is considered and important law in public education and courts have invoked it to prohibit segregation of children due to race, stop sex-based discrimination in a school setting, guarantee school access to children whose parents are not legal citizens and protect gay and lesbian students and teachers from being discriminated against (Fossey, n.d.). Because of the law, equal protection guarantees the right to an education (and everything that comes with it), protecting students from a number of discriminations, biases, and exclusions.
Classifying English Language Learners One area the Equal Protection Clause focuses protection on is the area of English Language Learners …show more content…
This is an issue when it comes to the “screeners” or placement testing for ELLs. There is a chance the “screeners” could come up with inaccurate results that could lessen educational opportunities among some. In addition, acts such as No Child Left Behind are being not only altered but replaced. Most recently has been the signing of the Every Student Succeeds Act, and it will go into effect during the 2017-2018 school year, and it fully replaces the No Child Left Behind Act (Klein, 2016). There is a slight discord to the establishment of the new law. There is a claim that ESSA does more to address the needs of English-learners while falling short of helping ELLs. After examining the current legal issues faced by ELLs, the next step is to examine what Equal Protection requires
Classifying English Language Learners One area the Equal Protection Clause focuses protection on is the area of English Language Learners …show more content…
This is an issue when it comes to the “screeners” or placement testing for ELLs. There is a chance the “screeners” could come up with inaccurate results that could lessen educational opportunities among some. In addition, acts such as No Child Left Behind are being not only altered but replaced. Most recently has been the signing of the Every Student Succeeds Act, and it will go into effect during the 2017-2018 school year, and it fully replaces the No Child Left Behind Act (Klein, 2016). There is a slight discord to the establishment of the new law. There is a claim that ESSA does more to address the needs of English-learners while falling short of helping ELLs. After examining the current legal issues faced by ELLs, the next step is to examine what Equal Protection requires