Education appeal: GOP leaders argue: School funding case way too wide

How Ironic. In Arizona, one of the hotbeds of English only as the official language, Republican legislators seek ways to withhold funding from ELL (English language learning) classrooms. Perhaps they expect students to absorb English by osmosis. What a concept--demand that students speak, read, write and learn in English but don't fund the classes that will help them do so. But, then there is no accounting for bigotry or stupidity.

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Dividing Lines : The Politics of Immigration Control in America (Princeton Studies in American Politics) Immigration is perhaps the most enduring and elemental leitmotif of America. This book is the most powerful study to date of the politics and policies it has inspired, from the founders' earliest efforts to shape American identity to today's revealing struggles over Third World immigration, noncitizen rights, and illegal aliens. Weaving a robust new theoretical approach into a sweeping history, Daniel Tichenor ties together previous studies' idiosyncratic explanations for particular, pivotal twists and turns of immigration policy. He tells the story of lively political battles between immigration defenders and doubters over time and of the transformative policy regimes they built.

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