Officials at odds over English case
Gov. Jan Brewer and Attorney General Terry Goddard are at odds over how involved Goddard’s office should be in a divisive education case currently pending in the U.S. Supreme Court.
The long-running case, known as Flores vs. Arizona, could help determine how much money Arizona public schools must spend on students who enter the classroom without a strong understanding of the English language.
On one side of the dispute is state schools Superintendent Tom Horne and Republican legislative leaders, who say that Arizona’s Legislature has already passed a law giving students sufficient money to help children learn English, and that any further demands by a federal court would constitute meddling in state business.
Their opponent is Tim Hogan of the Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest.
A year ago, Hogan convinced the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the state had failed to comply with a 2000 federal district court order requiring it to adequately fund a language program.
The decision meant the state faced the threat of fines up to $2 million a day.
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