Last year, Arizona Board of Education decided that any teacher deemed not âfluentâ in English cannot teach young, English-language learners. In this case, the state is interpreting an accent as disqualifying a teacher. The Board defines the changes in accent very minutely.
Introduction. The Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson (1908-73) on August 6, 1965, aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the 15th Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.n 1965, at the time of the passage of the Voting Rights Act, there were six African-American members of the U.S. House of Representativesandno blacks in the U.S. Senate.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 got rid of the literacy tests which needed to be passed before being able to vote. By the end of 1965, 250,000 black Americans had registerd to v â¦ ote (one-third had been assisted bu the government monitors who checked that the law was being followed).he Voting Rights Act of 1965 was a major step forward in Civil  Right for African-American. Although the won the right to vote with  the 14th Amendment, the VRA helped end â¦ racial discrimination in  voting.