Judge says bilingual ed sucks in Texas

The Texas Education Agency, aka the 'how can we turn Texas public schools into private, taxpayer funded, institutions of religious instruction' agency, is predictably uninterested in correcting any problem that might benefit Spanish speaking students.

A federal judge's ruling that Texas is not living up to its obligation to properly educate students who struggle with the English language gives hope to many of those children with dismal academic achievement, a civil rights lawyer said Monday.

The state of Texas is not complying with the federal Equal Education Opportunity Act in that public schools are failing their obligation to overcome language barriers, Senior U.S. District Judge William Wayne Justice said in a 95-page ruling on Friday.