<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Laws applied </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> Civil Rights Act of 1964 </Td> </Tr> <P> Lau v. Nichols, 414 U.S. 563 (1974), was a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court unanimously decided that the lack of supplemental language instruction in public school for students with limited English proficiency violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 . The court held that since non-English speakers were denied a meaningful education, the disparate impact caused by the school policy violated the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the school district was demanded to provide students with "appropriate relief". </P> <P> In 1971, the San Francisco school system desegregated based on the result of Supreme Court case Lee v. Johnson . 2856 Chinese students, who were not fluent in English, were integrated back into the San Francisco Unified School District (SFUSD). Only about 1000 of those students were provided supplemental English instruction . Of the other 1800 - plus Chinese students who weren't fluent in English, many were placed in special education classes while some were forced to be in the same grade for years . </P>

Lau v. nichols in 1974 was a u.s. supreme court decision which