We’ve been through this before. I’ve written twice before about the Tucson Unified School District, and its disbanding of the Mexican-American Studies (MAS) program. I’ve written about its removal of books by minority—predominantly Chicano/Chicana— authors from the school’s curriculum. I’ve written about the government-sanctioned attack on this wildly successful program, which sends 98 percent of
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There’s a battle heating up in the borderlands, and it’s starting to get interesting. It all began a few weeks ago, when the Tucson Unified School District, in compliance with a new state law, voted to discontinue their Mexican-American Studies (MAS) program. The district faced an ultimatum: suspend the program, or sacrifice 10 percent of
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