Tuesday, May 10, 2005
AZ Gov. Blocks Official English
Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano has vetoed an official English bill, claiming:
The Legislature, to date, has failed to appropriate adequate funding to allow schools to teach English-language learners. Consequently, under Senate Bill 1167, English is required as the official language, but funds are not available to help non-English speakers to learn to read, write or speak English. Under these circumstances, making English the only language for official action is contradictory at best.
The "Napolitano Rule" boils down to "Absent a taxpayer-funded English class, immigrants in Arizona have no personal responsibility to learn English and should not be expected to do so."
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