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The outcome of this case opened the door to future litigation limiting discriminatory practices against students based on, for example language, race, ethnicity, disability, culture, etc (Mahoney, p. 35, 2017).
This event is important in bilingual education today because this case makes discrimination against students based on their race, language, ethnicity and culture illegal.

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This was a case in the Supreme Court that established that language programs are needed to provide equal educational opportunities (Mahoney, p. 35, 2017).

This event is important in bilingual education today because it mandated English language instruction to be provided when necessary in order for students to be able to participate in a public education program.

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NCLB is signed into law. The No Child Left Behind law held schools accountable for how students learned and achieved.

This event is important in bilingual education today because it made learning how to educate Emergent bilinguals the responsibility of the whole school for the first time ever.

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2010 Common Core State Standards Released for English and Math

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2010 Common Core State Standards Released for English and Math

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Forty-eight states join in an unprecedented
level of national participation in a single set of academic standards for ELA and Math (Mahoney, p. 37, 2017).

This event is important in bilingual education for a few reasons. One reason is that the Common Core Standards are SUPPOSED to help all children learn the same skills and make sure that all children succeed once they graduate from high school. This includes children that are bilingual or Emergent Bilingual students. Another reason that it is important, is that it may put an extra strain on the education of EBs, depending on their ability to learn academic language in the English language. There is a focus on increased academic vocabulary, which could be an extra burden for EBs...depending on their proficiency level. Also, along with Common Core State Standards come additional assessments, which add to the amount of assessments that EBs are required to take during the academic year.

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2015 Every Student Succeeds Act replaces NCLB

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2015 Every Student Succeeds Act replaces NCLB

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This law signed by the very handsome President Obama was intended to decrease the federal involvement in public schools and redistribute that authority back to the states and local districts.

This event is important in bilingual education today because states have more responsibility for creating their own accountability systems and ESSA is more explicit about teacher preparation for ELLs/EBs. Also, it is easier to track EBs progress now that statewide entrance and exit procedures are standardized throughout the state. In addition, EB student monitoring has been improved
(https://www.air.org/resource/blog-post/what-will-essa-mean-english-learners).