1839- The adoption of bilingual education by Ohio allowed German-English instruction at the parents’ request. At the time, Ohio was the first state to adopt this bilingual education. According to rethinking schools they state, “By the end of the 19th century, about a dozen states had passed similar laws. Elsewhere, many localities provided bilingual instruction without state sanction, in languages as diverse as Norwegian, Italian, Polish, Czech, and Cherokee”. This was just the beginning of bilingual education in schools.