The Civil Rights Principles for Multilingual Learner Education details how decision makers at all levels can ensure an equitable education system that offers meaningful equal opportunity and success for all children, including children whose first language is a language other than English. We are all fortunate that there are so many children in the United States who are learning more than one language between their homes and their schools. This powerful asset enriches their own lives and education, and it sets them up to be builders of our multiracial, multicultural, and multilingual democracy. In order to ensure that children who speak more than one language have access to and are included in comprehensive, diverse, and high-quality education settings, we seek policy that reflects the following principles. The civil rights community calls on decision makers at all levels to create and maintain an equitable education system for children by incorporating these principles into all relevant policies.