Arizona: Motion asks judge to rule that ELL funding is inadequate

[Francis Hult]

KTAR.com

 

Motion asks judge to rule that ELL funding is inadequate


Arizona is imposing costly mandates on instruction of students learning English but providing inadequate funding that gives no additional money to districts that together have more than 75,000 of those students, a court motion filed Friday said. 

 

The motion filed by lawyers for plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the adequacy of English Language Learning programs for 138,000 Arizona students asked a federal judge to order the state to provide adequate funding and prohibit it from implementing the mandates in the meantime. 

 

The class-action lawsuit originally filed in 1982 on behalf of parents and students in Nogales Unified School District led to court orders that prompted the Legislature to revamp English Language Learning programs with a 2006 law and to boost state funding by $40.6 million under an appropriation approved this year. 

 

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