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Education and Immigration in Arizona

By immigrationprof

In Arizona, debates over how to fund English language education in pulbic schools are serving as a proxy for an immigration debate that is ratcheting up in that State:

“This whole education fight is clearly a proxy for the immigration debate,” said Bruce Merrill, a professor at the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. “A lot of people here feel if you don’t build it, they won’t come.”

The NYTimes story is here: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/03/national/03arizona.html.

-jmc