17 bilingual teachers from the embattled Lawrence MA public schools, due to lose their jobs at the end of the year due to state mandates eliminating bilingual education and forcing the teachers to pass English fluency tests before moving to regular classrooms, are seeking an injunction to save their jobs.
The question is expecially dicey due to the fact that the Superintendent of the Lawrence Schools, Wilfredo T. Leboy, has failed the test three times himself. Lawrence is one of the poorest school districts in the state and has a majority of non-native speakers of English in its student population.