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Lau decision  

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  • In 1974, a group of non–English-speaking Chinese students sued the San Francisco Unified School District. The case represented 2,856 Chinese-speaking students in the area who were receiving classroom instruction solely in English. [Source: Encyclopedia of Activism and Social Justice; Lau Decision]

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