Impasse in Arizona

Lawyer in finance case lists Gov. Napolitano as candidate for jail.

Timothy M. Hogan, a public-interest lawyer who is advocating that Arizona provide more money to schools to teach English-language learners, got a chance to name in court recently several public officials who, in his belief, deserve to go to jail.

U.S. District Judge Raner C. Collins held a hearing Oct. 31 on Mr. Hogan’s request that the federal government withhold funding for federal highway construction from Arizona because the state legislature and the governor haven’t figured out how to provide adequate funding for schools to teach the state’s 185,000 English-language learners.

“The judge was a little frustrated with trying to figure out a solution to the problem,” Mr. Hogan, the executive director of the Phoenix-based Arizona Center for Law in the Public Interest, said last week. “Half-kiddingly, half-seriously, he asked who I thought needed to...