Massachusetts Question 2, 2002

Massachusetts Ballot Question 2 (2002) replaced Massachusetts education law providing for transitional bilingual education in public schools with a law requiring that all public school children be taught all subjects in English and be placed in English language classrooms, except under special circumstances. Opponents of the proposition said that the law would allow teachers to be personally sued for teaching in a language other than English, and the Massachusetts Legislature’s Joint Committee on Education, Arts and Humanities rejected the petition, but it was approved into law by seventy percent of the voters.