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Attorney woes, costs soaring in English-learner legal quagmire legal tangle

The Arizona Daily Star

PHOENIX — Arizona taxpayers have spent nearly $1.3 million on attorneys fighting court orders to do more to help students learn English.

And in some cases the lawyers getting state funds are not even on the same side of the legal arguments.

Figures provided by the state Department of Administration show the Attorney General's Office, which is officially representing the interests of the state in the legal battle, has paid $491,103 to the firm of Lewis & Roca since September 2001, the year after a federal judge ruled the state was not spending enough money to teach students classified as "English language learners."

Posted by Editor at July 13, 2007 07:45 AM

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