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Timeline

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CAL Events	Date	U.S. and World Events
	1990	Florida Consent Decree signed, impacting professional development for teachers working with English language learners. U.S. foreign-born population reaches 19.8 million
G. Richard Tucker Fellowship begins National Education Goals Symposium Recruitment of 46 EFL Fellows for Eastern Europe How to Integrate Language and Content Instruction: A Training Manual National Center for Research on Cultural Diversity and Second Language Learning Student Oral Proficiency Assessment developed	1991	National Institute for Literacy (NIFL) established
	1992	Expansion of the World Wide Web
CAL website launched. View the original site or visit our current site. Management of project on ESL standards for preK-12 students for TESOL.	1995
Center for Research on Education, Diversity & Excellence (CREDE) begins	1996	ACTFL publishes Standards for Foreign Language Learning: Preparing for the 21st Century
Ñandutí Web site, providing resources on early foreign language learning, is launched	1997	TESOL publishes the first ESL Standards for Pre-K-12 Students
National K-12 Foreign Language Survey results	1998	Proposition 227 passes in California Adult Education Act repealed and replaced by the Workforce Investment Act
Foreign Language NAEP Framework Development Project The American Bilingual Tradition republished by CAL	1999	National Reporting System for Adult Education put in place by the U.S. Department of Education, Office of Vocational and Adult Education

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