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| Title | Article: End Is Near in a Fight on Teaching of English |
| Body | From http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/education/20flores.html?_r=1 End Is Near in a Fight on Teaching of English By TAMAR LEWIN May 19, 2009 Next month, after 17 years of litigation, the United States Supreme Court will rule on the Flores case, deciding whether Arizona is complying with federal laws requiring public schools to teach children to speak English. The case has been long and tangled, splitting state officials along party lines. In 2000, a district court ruled that the state’s financing for English language learners was not “reasonably calculated” to cover the extra costs of educating them, and ordered the district to come up with a better plan. Last year, the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld the lower court, ruling that despite improvement, the state was still not in compliance. Read the full article at http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/education/20flores.html?_r=1 . |
| Source | New York Times |
| Inputdate | 2009-05-24 09:18:26 |
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| Publishdate | 2009-05-25 00:00:00 |
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