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Mahoney, Kate; Lillie, Karen E.; Rolstad, Kellie; MacSwan, Jeff; DuBois, Natalie; Haladyna, Tom – International Journal of Bilingual Education and Bilingualism, 2022
The authors evaluate the success of Arizona's program for English Learners (ELs) twelve years after the implementation of Proposition 203 to determine whether it meets the "third prong" test of CastaƱeda v. Pickard (1981), which requires a demonstration of the effectiveness of a program after its implementation. This study is a follow-up…
Descriptors: State Legislation, English Language Learners, Court Litigation, Program Effectiveness
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Butvilofsky, Sandra A.; Gumina, Deena – Bilingual Research Journal, 2020
This qualitative study examines students' perceptions of their bilingualism in a school that is attempting to disrupt inequalities through the promotion of social justice through bilingual/bicultural education. In order to understand students' perspectives of their bilingualism in Arizona's restrictive policy context, the researchers apply…
Descriptors: Bilingualism, Student Attitudes, Social Justice, Equal Education
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Johnson, Eric J. – International Multilingual Research Journal, 2014
In this discussion, I explore the unfolding effects of Arizona's anti-bilingual education law (Proposition 203) on schools with predominant language-minority student populations. Instead of facilitating academic progress, policies like Proposition 203 impede teachers from "scaffolding" (Long & Adamson, 2012, p. 39) their students'…
Descriptors: Language Minorities, State Legislation, Minority Group Students, Bilingual Education