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

587 F.2d 1022 GUADALUPE ORGANIZATION, INCORPORATED, a Non-Profit Arizona Corporation, on behalf of its members and the Community of Guadalupe, et al., Plaintiffs- Appellants, v. TEMPE ELEMENTARY SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 3 et al., Defendants-Appellees. No. 76-2029. United States Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit. Dec. 18, 1978. Appeal from the United States District Court for the District of arizona. Before CHOY and SNEED, Circuit Judges, and SPENCER WILLIAMS, * District Judge. SNEED, Circuit Judge: 1 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-bicultural education also violates rights granted by Section 601 of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Equal Education Opportunity Act of 1974 and Title 42…