Guadalupe Organization, Inc. v. Tempe Elementary School District No. 3

SNEED, Circuit Judge:

This appeal is from the district court’s adverse determination of a civil rights class action filed by plaintiff-appellants to compel the Tempe Elementary School District No. 3 to provide all non-English-speaking Mexican-American or Yaqui Indian students attending district schools with bilingual-bicultural education. Appellants assert that their rights to equal educational opportunity have been disregarded in violation of the Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment and that the school district’s failure to provide bilingual-bicul-tural education also violates…