Arizona to require four hours of English daily for ELLs

Beginning next school year, all public schools in Arizona will be required to teach four hours of English a day to English-language learners (ELLs)—students who aren’t proficient in the language. But the state mandate concerns officials in some districts, who wonder where they’re going going to find the money, space and teachers to support the program. According to Patti Lopez, deputy superintendent of the Tucson Unified School District, “[The students] will be taken out of the regular classroom and grouped with students of the same proficiency level.” Read more in The Arizona Daily Star online.