McLAUGHLIN v. STATE BD. OF EDUCATION

No. A084730.

89 Cal.Rptr.2d 295 (1999)

75 Cal.App.4th 196

Jack McLAUGHLIN et al., Plaintiffs and Respondents, v. STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION et al., Defendants and Appellants.

Court of Appeals of California, First District, Division Two.

Review Denied December 21, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel E. Lungren and Bill Lockyer, Attorneys General, Charlton G. Holland, III Chief Assistant Attorney General, Frank S. Furtek, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Paul Reynaga, Deputy Attorney General, Angela M. Botelho, Deputy Attorney General, for Defendants and Appellants.

Ruiz & Sperow, LLP, Celia M. Ruiz, San Francisco, Laura Schulkind, Jennifer M. Joaquin, for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Joseph Jaramillo, for amicus curiae Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund, for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Robert Pongetti, Peter Simshauser, Los Angeles, and Paul M. Eckles and Mark T. Gallagher, Sacramento, for amicus curiae One Nation/One California, Las Familias del Pueblo, Gloria Matta Tuchman and Travell Louie, for Defendants and Appellants.

Olson, Hegel, Leidigh, Waters & Fishburn, N. Eugene Hill, George Waters and Abhas Hajela, Sacramento, for amicus curiae Education Legal Alliance of the California School Board Association, for Plaintiffs and Respondents.

Sharon L. Browne and Mark T. Gallagher, Sacramento, for amicus curiae Pacific Research Institute for Public Policy and Center for Equal Opportunity, for Defendants and Appellants.

Barbosa Garcia LLP, Jonathan B. Stone, Los Angeles, and Benjamin D. Nieberg, for amicus curiae Sweetwater Union High School District, for Plaintiffs and Respondents.


RUVOLO, J.

I.

INTRODUCTION

In the primary election held in June 1998, the voters of California passed Proposition 227, the "English Language in Public Schools" initiative statute, creating a new chapter in California's Education Code1 (the Chapter). The enacted statutory scheme requires children in California's public schools who are of "Limited English Proficiency" (LEP) to be taught only in English, subject to the...

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