Researchers' ELL Data Subpoenaed in Arizona Court Case
The Request Came From Lawyers for the State Education Department
A federal judge ruled last week that two Arizona universities must partially comply with a subpoena asking them to turn over data associated with research studies on Arizona’s approach to educating English-language learners.
The request, which has drawn fire from civil rights advocates and researchers, came in the case Horne v. Flores , which is about the education of ELLs in the state.
Lawyers for state Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne say they need the data to evaluate the accuracy of the testimony of expert witnesses in the case. But researchers from the University of Arizona, in Tucson, and from Arizona State University, in Tempe, had promised that the information—which includes the names of study...
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