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.
Since being signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson in 1965, the Voting Rights Act has been used to protect Americans' right to vote and prohibit limitations and barriersâoften racially-basedâplaced on poll places, particularly in the South.