In nineteen twenty-five, a young science teacher in the southern state of Tennessee challenged the state's new teaching law.
VOA: special.2011.01.13
Mr Tancredo has been furious about immigration since 1975, when he was a high-school social-studies teacher and the Colorado legislature passed the country's first bilingual education law.
The law's mandated student testing and teacher training have come with little funding, forcing many low-income schools to choose between investing in core academic offerings or paying for the new requirements, the Arizona governor said.
He studied law at Northwestern University, until he was forced to leave over an affair with a teacher's wife (who later became his second of three wives).