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Court decision, the LAU decision has certian implication from our student population in Iowa, and possible Bi-lingual education can be instituted in Iowa. Hopefully, it will become a reality, through the process, the the group action which was identified political action, rather than in the courts but we also have our courts as our last resort. Presently in Iowa there are only 2, that I know of, English as the second language programs, one in Davenport, I understand, and one in Muscatine. All other school systems for all intents and purposes are depriving our students of the education they are guaranteed, by the civil rights act 1964. Our Social Services delivering Systems, that spend millions of dollars in the state of Iowa can be challenged. Very few Spanish-Speaking people at the present time are hired by the Social Service programs in the state, and even fewer in the delivery end of the services, as in the Administrative capacities in Social Service Programs. We have only 2 programs that are presently working with funds that are largely designed to work with Chicano populations. Those being the 2 migrant programs that are present operating in Iowa. The area-board for migrants we had that, it was a successful program. It was a program that was giving our Davenport community an opportunity to use the Social Services that was available to them. But that too has been done away with. We have no program now, we have the board in existence but that's all. We were (illegible) we now have and elderly program in Davenport. The only one of its kind, in Davenport. The commission on aging with all its money is not serving the Spanish-Speaking elderly

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Court decision, the LAU decision has certian implication from our student population in Iowa, and possible Bi-lingual education can be instituted in Iowa. Hopefully, it will become a reality, through the process, the the group action which was identified political action, rather than in the courts but we also have our courts as our last resort. Presently in Iowa there are only 2, that I know of, English as the second language programs, one in Davenport, I understand, and one in Muscatine. All other school systems for all intents and purposes are depriving our students of the education they are guaranteed, by the civil rights act 1964. Our Social Services delivering Systems, that spend millions of dollars in the state of Iowa can be challenged. Very few Spanish-Speaking people at the present time are hired by the Social Service programs in the state, and even fewer in the delivery end of the services, as in the Administrative capacities in Social Service Programs. We have only 2 programs that are presently working with funds that are largely designed to work with Chicano populations. Those being the 2 migrant programs that are present operating in Iowa. The area-board for migrants we had that, it was a successful program. It was a program that was giving our Davenport community an opportunity to use the Social Services that was available to them. But that too has been done away with. We have no program now, we have the board in existence but that's all. We were (illegible) we now have and elderly program in Davenport. The only one of its kind, in Davenport. The commission on aging with all its money is not serving the Spanish-Speaking elderly