Equal Educational Opportunities Act • English Language Learners • Right to Transfer Schools • Preliminary Injunction
Issa v. Sch. Dist. of Lancaster, PICS Case No. 17-0157 (3Cir. Jan. 30, 2017) Fisher, J. (46 pages).
Refugee immigrants with limited or no English proficiency were entitled to a preliminary injunction enabling them to transfer schools where they demonstrated a likelihood of success in proving that school district’s practice of placing them in accelerated instruction was a failure. Order of the district court affirmed.