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Arizona Lawmakers Ask for Deadline Extension

By Mary Ann Zehr — February 29, 2008 1 min read
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Arizona legislators filed papers in U.S. District Court in Tucson yesterday asking the court to give them more time to come up with a way to adequately pay for the education of English-language learners, according to a Feb. 28 article by the East Valley Tribune and an article published today in the Arizona Republic. The court had given the Arizona legislature a March 4 deadline in the long-running Flores v. Arizona case.

Timothy Hogan, the attorney for the plaintiffs, is quoted in the articles as saying he’s willing to give the legislature an extra two weeks, but not more than that. See “March 4 Deadline on ELLs Looms Over Arizona Legislature.”

A version of this news article first appeared in the Learning the Language blog.