Colorado Latino Parents Victorious in Court to Obtain Funding for English-Language Learners
On Friday, a state district court in Denver, Colorado ruled in favor of plaintiffs in the State’s first adequacy case, Lobato v. Colorado, a lawsuit in which MALDEF represented Colorado parents seeking adequate funding for at-risk and English Language Learner (“ELL”) students in the Colorado school system.
The plaintiffs originally filed the lawsuit in 2005 on behalf of parents and school districts, arguing that the State of Colorado had failed to adequately fund their education. MALDEF’s intervention in February 2010 focused on the inadequate funding for at-risk students and ELL students.
In its ruling, the court stated, “there is not enough money in the system to permit school districts across the
