• Arizona schools chief Tom Horne seeks legal authority to enforce English immersion • Horne wants Arizona Supreme Court to uphold 2000 law requiring English instruction • Horne also seeks to reverse a $120,000 legal fee imposed on him

State schools chief Tom Horne is making a last-ditch effort to get the legal go-ahead to force school districts to use only “structured English immersion” to teach the language to students who are not proficient.

In a new filing, Horne wants the Arizona Supreme Court to rule that he has inherent authority to enforce a 2000 voter-approved law which spells out that “all children in Arizona public schools shall be taught English by being taught in English, and all children should be placed in English language classrooms.”

And he also wants to be able to

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