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Tucson Unified's highly-regarded Mexican American Studies program shuttered whil…

January 12, 2012 by K12NN Site Admin

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Tucson Unified’s highly-regarded Mexican American Studies program shuttered while court battles sort student/teacher First Amendment rights & the vague wording of the law targeting MAS removal, HB 2281. cc New York Collective of Radical Educators (NYCoRE), Institute for Teachers of Color Committed to Racial Justice, UCLA’s Institute for Democracy, Education, and Access (UCLA IDEA)


Day After in Tucson: As School Board Padlocks Program, Mexican American Studies Will Rise Again in C
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With their district already under an embarrassing desegregation order, the Governing Board of the Tucson Unified School District acquiesced to the demands of notorious Tea Party state officials last night and voted 4-1 to terminate the city’s nationally acclaimed Ethnic Studies/Mexican American Stud…

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