Foes hope lawsuit blocks initiative.
The board vote leaves foes of the initiative pinning their hopes on a lawsuit filed in federal court in San Francisco seeking to have the proposition invalidated. A hearing on the suit is scheduled July 15. It allows exceptions under limited circumstances when parents request waivers for their children. The debate before the state board was over how to define a school term. Those districts also have some of the state's heaviest concentration of limited-English students and bilingual classes.