A school district in Tucson voted to dismantle its ethnic studies program after more than $1 million of monthly state funding was to be cut off in response to conclusions by Arizona’s public schools chief and a judge that the program violated the law, the Associated Press reports. The Arizona Daily Star reports that the 4-1 vote Tuesday by the Tucson Unified School District means courses in the district’s Mexican-American Studies program will cease immediately. Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal last week ordered that 10 percent of the district’s monthly state aid, amounting to more than $1 million per month, be withheld until the district follows the law…
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Arizona schools chief says Tucson program violates law
Arizona’s superintendent of schools said on Wednesday a controversial ethnic studies program in Tucson public schools violates new state law and he threatened to cut off $15 million in funds for the district, Reuters reports. Schools chief John Huppenthal gave the Tucson Unified School District 60 days to prove that it had followed the law–which forbids promoting resentment of an ethnic group or advocating ethnic solidarity, or programs designed primarily for students of one ethnicity…
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