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Language barriers: Arizonans battle federal court order to spend more.

Publication: Education Next
Publication Date: 01-JAN-09
Format: Online
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Language barriers: Arizonans battle federal court order to spend more.(the legal beat)

Article Excerpt
Once past the long, agonizing upheaval of school desegregation, the states and their education departments by and large have bent to the federal will. But what happens when they don't? What if instead they see a federal judicial order as a threat to be resisted? Legislative leaders and the twice-elected state superintendent of schools in Arizona are putting these questions to the test in a long-running lawsuit. In Flores v. Arizona, the central issue is how much the state must spend for English language learners (ELL) beyond a basic grant to school districts. This is a heated issue in a state on the Mexican border with a large immigrant...

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