Theory - The Education of Language Minority Students
From the testimony of Kenji Hakuta (with the special assistance of Michele Bousquet Gutierrez)
to the United States Commission on Civil Rights on April 13, 2001.  The full text can be found here.

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California Department of Education, Educational Demographics Unit, Number of teachers in California public schools by ethnic designation and gender, 1999-00 [On-line]. Available: http://data1.cde.ca.gov/dataquest/NumTeachCo.asp?cChoice=StateNum&Radio2=T&cYear=1999-00&submit1=Submit

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Castañeda v. Pickard, 648 F.2d 989 (5th Cir. 1981).

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