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On July 24, the U.S. Department of Education (USDOE) rejected the argument made by the Arizona Department of Education (ADE) that failure to align the curricula of all public schools in the state, including charter schools, would jeopardize federal funding. In a letter to Clint Bolick of the Goldwater Institute, USDOE legal counsel Kent Talbert stated that nothing in federal law "mandates a state to align its social studies curriculum on a grade-by-grade basis to state standards," and therefore, "any non-alignment of such curriculum to state standards would not be grounds for withholding Federal funds." On June 22, the Goldwater Institute filed suit against the ADE on behalf of five charter schools. Oral arguments will be heard on August 6 in Maricopa County Superior Court on the schools' motion for a preliminary injunction against the curriculum alignment mandate, which is slated to take effect this school year.
Source: Goldwater Institute
Date: 07/24/2007
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