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Wednesday, September 14, 2011

Da Bears? Da Bulls? Go by da Jewels? Not in Arizona. « Fred Klonsky's blog

Da Bears? Da Bulls? Go by da Jewels? Not in Arizona. « Fred Klonsky's blog:

Da Bears? Da Bulls? Go by da Jewels? Not in Arizona.

I may never see the Grand Canyon.

Unless things change in Arizona, I’m not going there. The anti-immigrant stuff is just to0 crazy.

The latest news is that the Feds have dropped their civil rights suit against the state of Arizona in the case where Arizona was monitoring teachers for mispronunciation of English language words in the classroom.

As a result of the settlement the state has agreed to stop their practice that was targeting non-native speakers. Local districts, however will continue the monitoring.

The investigation began after unnamed parties filed a civil-rights complaint in