A story in the June 16, 2010, issue of Education Week about the Arizona law SB 1070 mischaracterized the 1982 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Plyler v. Doe as barring schools from determining students’ immigration status because of a potential “chilling” effect on their right to an education. That interpretation is offered by lawyers, but it is not in the court’s opinion.
A version of this article appeared in the July 14, 2010 edition of Education Week as Correction