Arizona: Attorney says fines off table for now in ELL case

[Harold Schiffman]

Forwarded From: edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


KOLD News



Attorney says fines off table for now in ELL case



A lawyer for class-action plaintiffs challenging the adequacy of Arizona's
programs for students learning English says the state is off the hook
temporarily -- but maybe not for long. Attorney Tim Hogan has told a federal
judge that the state's approval of a $40.6 million funding increase for
English Language Learning programs eliminates the potential for large daily
fines that the judge had threatened.



Full story:

http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=8182865





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Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone: (215) 898-7475
Fax: (215) 573-2138

Email: haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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