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Via the Tucson Sentinel: An independent audit of Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies Department doesn’t support the declaration by state schools chief John Huppenthal that TUSD’s ethnic studies classes violate the law. TUSD ethnic studies audit
Tucson Freedom Summer’s Book Revival Celebrates Chicano Literary Pioneer
As part of a series of “Freedom Summer” events challenging the Tucson Unified School District’s nationally denounced banishment of Mexican American literature from its schools, four Tucson journalists and writers will host a special reading from the stories of the city’s legendary godfather of Chicano literature, Mario Suarez, on Saturday, July 21st, in the heart [...]Show More Summary
Books Gone, Tucson School Now Blocks Visit by Renowned Author Ana Castillo
In a stunning rejection of celebrated author Ana Castillo’s offer to read and speak with Tucson high school students next week, Tucson Unified School District administrators added a new chapter to the nation’s most troubling censorship crackdown and dismissed any overtures for healing in the torn community. A widely sought speaker on the national lecture circuit, [...]
After Daily Show Embarrassment, Will Disgraced Tucson School Board Member Finally Resign Tonight? (VIDEO)
At tonight’s Tucson Unified School District governing meeting, nationally disgraced board member Michael Hicks has a wonderful opportunity to provide a teaching moment for the Old Pueblo: He can apologize for his racist antics to the students, parents and community members in Tucson’s largest school district and then he can resign. In an embarrassing performance on [...]
Beyond Books: Tucson School District Tries to Block Annual Cesar Chavez Celebration
Nearly derailing one of Tucson’s most cherished traditions, Tucson Unified School District officials have attempted to block the staging of the annual Cesar Chavez March and Rally, according to a press release from the Mexican American Studies Community Advisory Board today, “by setting impossible preconditions on public access to Pueblo High School.” “Chavez is a civil [...]
Tucson Teacher Calls for Return of Banished Books, As Arizona Pushes Bill for Guns and Bibles in Classrooms
While the Arizona state legislature moves along two bills that will legally place guns and Bibles into public school classrooms, one Mexican American Studies teacher approached Tucson Unified School District administrators today with a simple request on the eve of the state’s centennial celebrations: Release the locked up Mexican American Studies textbooks, so Tucson children [...]
Book Traffickers invade Arizona
Looks like a "magical mystery tour" is headed straight to Tucson, Arizona in mid-March. The mystery? Not the Beatles. Why were books on Mexican American Studies (MAS) banned from the Tucson Unified School District? Lame answer...Winners...Show More Summary
Occupy Wall Street Library Sending Banned Books To AZ
Join Us in Supporting the Students and Teachers of Tucson Unified School District This is where you come in. Acting in solidarity with OccupyTucson and the students, parents, and teachers of the Tucson Unified School District we are going send copies of the banned texts to Tucson for distribution. Show More Summary
Occupy Wall Street Library Sending Books to Tucson
The Occupy Wall Street Library and Occupy Tuscon are raising funds to redistribute books that have been removed from Tucson Unified School District.
Last year, Arizona passed the controversial H.B. 2281, a bill banning school curriculum...Show More Summary
Douchebag Decree: Tucson Public School Officials Ban Ethnic Studies Program and Shelve Books
Straight from the "people still do this?" department, the Governing Board of the Tucson Unified School District responded to pressure from creepy Arizona Tea Party officials by dismantling the district's Mexican-American Studies program, and last week they announced they were preventing many of the books from being used in school curricula. Show More Summary
Students Step Up Tucson Walkouts: Protest School District Folly and Mexican American Studies Banishment
As the nation watches the Tucson Unified School District’s spiral into disarray, hundreds of students have walked out of their Tucson schools today in a coordinated protest against the banishment of the district’s acclaimed Mexican American Studies program. Pouring into the downtown Tucson area from Pueblo, Cholla and Tucson high schools, among other institutions, the [...]
Tucson Unified School District has not banned any books as has been widely and incorrectly reported
George Orwell comes to TUSD: Books not banned, just boxed up and out of MAS classrooms "NONE of the above books have been banned by TUSD. Each book has been boxed and stored as part of the process of suspending the classes. The books...Show More Summary
Day After in Tucson: As School Board Padlocks Program, Mexican American Studies Will Rise Again in Courts and 2012 Election
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 Studies program. While Kansas school board members made national headlines in 1999 [...]
Pamela Powers Hannley: Tucson School Board To Decide On Controversial Mexican American Studies Program
Members of the Tucson Unified School District Governing Board are expected to vote tonight on the fate of a controversial Mexican American Studies program. Will they accept the state's ruling that MAS violates the law? Will they vote to dismantle or modify MAS? Or will they further appeal the findings and accept the multi-million-dollar fines?
The Arpaio of Ethnic Studies: Will Tucson School Board Ask DOJ to Investigate Disgraced AZ Ed Chief Huppenthal for Racial Profiling, Hate Crimes?
Instead of once again shining the spotlight on the disgraceful antics of extremist Tea Party hacks in Arizona’s withering state government, the national media should be asking why the Tucson Unified School District board and community leaders haven’t followed their Phoenix neighbors and summoned the Civil Rights Division of the Department of Justice to investigate [...]
Arizona Judge Rules Tuscon Ethnic Studies Program Violates Arizona Law
What is going on in Arizona?! A judge ruled that Tucson's school district's ethnic studies program was against the law. Tucson Unified School District offers courses in Mexican-American studies. The program is said to violate a new Arizona law that prohibits divisive ethnic studies. The law bans classes that are designed for an ethnic group or "promote resentment [...]
Judge Rules Ethnic Studies Illegal in Arizona
An administrative law judge says ethic studies violates Arizona state law. Judge Lewis Kowal’s ruling marked a defeat for the Tucson Unified School District, which appealed the findings issued in June by Superintendent of Public Instruction...Show More Summary
AZ School Chief Compares Mexican American Studies to Hitler Jugend (As He Endorses White Supremacist-Backed Candidate)
As a state administrative judge deliberates on the fate of Tucson Unified School District’s Ethnic Studies/Mexican American Studies Program (MAS), Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal compared the nationally acclaimed...Show More Summary
Anti-Americanism Disguised as Ethnic Studies in Tucson Schools
The Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) is in a contentious fight with the state of Arizona over its controversial Mexican-American Studies program. A state law went into effect in Arizona on January 1, 2011, banning the teaching of ethnic studies in K-12 schools. Show More Summary
On Arizona’s Frontlines: Mexican American Studies Director Sean Arce Teaches Nation an Enduring Lesson
As Tucson Unified School District students returned to the classroom yesterday, the towering role of one education innovator is being championed by a broad spectrum of local students, parents, teachers, community members and national scholars. Over the past decade, Sean Arce, the esteemed director and co-founder of the district’s Mexican American Studies program has rescued [...]
