Tucson-area district to defy state law on English immersion

[Francis Hult]

KTAR

 

Tucson-area district to defy state law on English immersion

 

A Tucson-area school district plans to defy a state law requiring all students learning English to have four-hour daily language immersion classes, saying federal civil rights rules take precedence. 

 

The decision by the Sahuarita Unified School District to exclude its middle and high school students drew an immediate response from Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, who said he was ``shocked'' and disturbed the district planned to ignore the 2006 state law. 

 

``Any administrator who participates in open defiance of a state law would be subject to a complaint against his or her certificate for unprofessional conduct,'' Horne warned Friday. 

 

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