50th Anniversary Community Convening to Celebrate Lau v Nichols

00:00 Start 2:00 Housekeeping 4:33 Emcee Nick Gee, Introduction to Lau v Nichols 5:30 Cynthia Choi 14:34, Keynote Speaker, Lucinda Lee Katz 43:24: Panel #1: Vincent Pan (moderator), Trish Morita, Ed Steinman, Laureen Chew, Rachel Moran 1:48:20 Panel #2: Christina Wong (moderator), Calvin Truong, Mirna Vasquez, Jeremiah Jeffries, Leslie Hu, Angelica Jongco On May 4, 2024, CAA convened a celebration in honor of Lau v Nichols, a landmark Supreme Court case which expanded language access for immigrant students in schools. The case originated in San Francisco, where Chinese immigrant students who spoke little to no English were not receiving adequate language assistance in school. The parents of these students filed a class action lawsuit, arguing that the lack of English language instruction was a form of discrimination under Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of race, color, or national origin in programs that receive federal funding.