http://www.advancingequality.org Asian American Justice Center Release RSS feed. . Copyright 2005, Asian American Justice Center Tendenci Membership Management Software by Schipul - The Web Marketing Company en-us noemail@advancingequality.org Thu, 02 Sep 2010 16:17:56 GMT Release http://www.advancingequality.org/en/rel/201/ Washington, D.C. – The Asian American Justice Center (AAJC) and its affiliates—the Asian American Institute of Chicago, Ill., Asian Law Caucus of San Francisco, Calif. and Asian Pacific American Legal Center of Los Angeles, Calif.—express their disappointment in the United States Supreme Court’s decision in the matter of Horne v. Flores and Speaker of the Arizona House of Representatives v. Flores, which involved a challenge against the adequacy of English Language Learner (ELL) programs in an Arizona school district. AAJC, its affiliates, NCLR and 17 other organizations filed a friend of the court brief in March in support of Miriam Flores. In a 5-4 decision delivered by Justice Alito, the Supreme Court ruled the lower courts did not properly consider whether changed circumstances, including the implementation of the No Child Left Behind Act, since Flores filed the original lawsuit had brought the Nogales Unified School District into compliance with the Equal Education Opportunity... http://www.advancingequality.org/en/rel/201/ noemail@advancingequality.org Mon, 29 Jun 2009 13:00:00 GMT