Cecilia Diaz Student 1380587 May 27 2014 METa What does META stand for MMulticultural EEducational TTraining and AAdvocacy Inc Why meta In August 1990 a judge of the United States District Court Southern District of Florida signed a ID: 573943
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Meta Consent Decree
Cecilia Diaz
Student # 1380587
May 27, 2014Slide2
METa
What does META stand for?
M-Multicultural
E-Educational
T-Training and
A-Advocacy, Inc.Slide3
Why meta?
In August 1990, a judge of the United States District Court, Southern District of Florida, signed a
C
onsent Decree giving the court the power to enforce an agreement between the FLDOE and a coalition of eight groups.
LULAC v. Florida Department of EducationSlide4
What is The Meta Consent Decree?
The Meta Consent Decree is: the state of Florida’s framework for compliance with the following federal and state laws and jurisprudence regarding the education of English
l
anguage learner students:
Title VI and VII Civil Rights Act of 1964
Office of Civil Rights Memorandum (Standards for Title VI Compliance ) of May 25, 1970
Requirements based on the the Supreme Court decision in
Lau v. Nichols
, 1974Slide5
What is the Meta Consent Decree? Continued
Equal Education Opportunities Act of 1974
Requirements of the Vocational Education Guidelines, 1979
Requirements based on the Fifth Circuit court decision in
Castaneda v. Pickard
, 1981
Requirements based on the Supreme Court decision in
Plyler
v. Doe
, 1982
Americans with Disabilities Act (PL-94-142)
Florida Education Equity Act, 1984
Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 Slide6
Meta Consent Decree
The Consent Decree addresses the civil rights of ELL students, foremost, among those their right to equal access education programs. In addressing these rights, the Consent Decree provides a structure that ensures the delivery of the comprehensible instruction to which ELL students are entitled.
Florida's authority for the implementation of the Consent Decree is found in
Section 1003.56, F.S, English Language Instruction for Limited English Proficient Students and Rules 6A-6.0900 to 6A-6.0909, F.A.C., Programs for Limited English Proficient Students.Slide7
Meta Consent decree
Section I-Identification & Assessment
Section II- Equal Access to Appropriate Program
Section III-Equal Access to Appropriate Categorical and Other Programs for ELL Students
Section IV-Personnel
Section V-Monitoring Issues
Section VI-Outcome MeasuresSlide8
Scenario
Student A has arrived from the country of Thailand. He does not know how to speak the English language. He was placed in a third grade classroom because of the date on his birth certificate which, would have placed him in the third grade. The El Paso, Texas School Board offers student A, a desk, seat, books, a teacher, and the current third grade curriculum. After two weeks of being at the school, the school sent a letter home asking for proof of U.S. residency in order to continue registered at the school. Does this violate the META Consent Decree? Why? Why not?Slide9
Landmark Case-1
Lau
v. Nichols
,
414 U.S. 563, 94
S.Ct
. 786 (1974
) In
Lau v. Nichols,
the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that the San Francisco school system violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 by denying non-English speaking students of Chinese ancestry a meaningful opportunity to participate in the public educational program. The decision stated that providing students the same desks, books, teachers, and curriculum did not ensure that they received an equal educational opportunity, particularly if the students did not speak English. If English is the mainstream language of instruction, then measures have to be taken to ensure that English is taught to students who do not speak English or are limited-English proficient in order to provide equal access to educational opportunities.Slide10
Landmark Case-2
Castaneda v. Pickard
,
648F. 2d 989 (5th Cir. 1981
)
In
Castaneda vs. Pickard,
the U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals set forth a three-part test to determine whether a school district takes appropriate actions to overcome language barriers that confront language-minority students. Under this standard, a program for limited-English proficient students is acceptable if:
A program is based on educational theory that is recognized by experts in the field;
The programs or practices used are reasonably calculated to effectively implement the adopted theory; and
The program successfully produces results that indicate that the language barriers are being overcome.Slide11
Landmark Case-3
Plyler
v. Doe
, 457 U.S. 202 (1982) In 1982, the Supreme Court ruled in
Plyler
v. Doe
that public schools were prohibited from denying immigrant students access to a public education. The Court stated that undocumented children have the same right to a free public education as U.S. citizens and permanent residents. Undocumented immigrant students are obligated, as are all other students, to attend school until they reach the age mandated by state law.
Public schools and school personnel are prohibited under
Plyler
from adopting policies or taking actions that would deny students access to education based on their immigration status.Slide12
Florida statutes numbers
Under Florida’s education accountability system,
S
.
229.57
(3)(b)7., F.S., requires that all students participate in the statewide testing program, except as otherwise prescribed by the Commissioner. Pursuant to the A+ Education Plan enacted in 1999, schools are now graded on the basis of letter grades (A-F). According to DOE, all students’ test scores are
included in
a
school’s grade, including limited
English
proficient
(LEP) students who have been in an
ESOL
program for
more
than two years.
LEP students who have been in ESOL programs for
less than two
years are exempted
from the testing requirements. Slide13
Florida Statutes
and rules
Section 22&2001(2)(c), F.S. -- Educational Equity Act
Section 229.57(3)(6)7., F.S. -- Test modification for LEP students
Section
231.24, F.S. -- ESOL
in-service
points
Section
233.058, F.S. -- English language instruction for LEP students
Section 236.081(1)(c)4., F.S. -- Weighted funding for ESOL students 240,529(2), F.S. -- ESOL requirements for state approved teacher prep
programs
Rule 6A. 4.0244, F.A.C. -- Teacher certification in ESOL
Rule
6A. 6-0900, F.A.C. -- Programs/exemptions
students specialization
for
LEP students Slide14
Evaluative Instrument
Please get into six groups of four and discuss the following questions:
What do the acronyms ESOL, ELL, and LEP stand for?
What is the META Consent Decree?
What came about with the META Consent Decree?
What does META stand for?
When is META applicable?
For whom was the META Consent Decree written for? Slide15
References
The Florida Consent Decree: A Summary. (
n.d.
). . Retrieved May 25, 2014, from
http
://www.scps.k12.fl.us/Portals/46/Assets/PDF
/
ESOLMETAConsentSummary.pdf
Consent
Decree Florida Department of Education. (
n.d.
). . Retrieved May 25,
2014
, from
http://www.fldoe.org/aala/cdpage2.
asp
The Protection of English Language Learners Under the Law. (
n.d.
). . Retrieved
May 25
, 2014,
from
http
://esol.leeschools.net/eManual/meta
/
META%20CONSENT%20PRESENTATION%202011-12.pdfSlide16
REFERENCES
Lau v. Nichols
,
414 U.S. 563, 94
S.Ct
. 786 (1974
)
Castaneda v. Pickard
,
648F. 2d 989 (5th Cir. 1981)
Plyler
v. Doe
, 457 U.S. 202 (1982
)
Council for Lifelong Learning: English for Speakers of Other
Languages
(ESOL) Fact Sheet. (2001, September 1). . Retrieved
May
25, 2014, from
http://www.leg.state.fl.us/data
/
publications
/2002/house/reports/
EdFactSheets
/fact%20sheets
/
English
%20for%20Speakers%20of%20Other%20Languages.pdf
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The End.
Thank you.