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English-Language Learner Case Framed as Civil Rights Enforcement Issue Before Supreme Court

by Karen Branch-Brioso , April 20, 2009

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Her youngest, Isabella, is 5. She’ll start kindergarten in the fall.

“I’m wondering what’s going to happen with Isabella. She doesn’t speak hardly any English,” said the elder Miriam Flores, who fears the impact of a recent Arizona law that now requires ELLs to spend four hours a day learning English, limiting their time in other subjects.

“Isabella loves music. She says, ‘I want to be in music and band.’ If she can’t get out of the ELL programs, then she won’t be able to develop that talent.’’

Miriam Flores, the daughter, says some people back home in Nogales tell her nothing much has changed for ELLs. But some friends, who are schoolteachers, say they’re receiving special training now to help teach second-language learners.

“I’m definitely sure it improved since I was in elementary school,” she says. “I’m really hoping it does eventually become a lot better.”

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