Mexican American Studies May Return To Tucson
By Roque Planas, Huffington Post
Mexican American Studies may soon return to Tucson, Arizona.
The city’s school board voted 3 to 2 on Tuesday to lift its objection to including “culturally relevant coursework” as part of the core curriculum in the desegregation plan for the city’s schools, the Arizona Daily Star reports.
The vote augurs well for the controversial course of Mexican American studies that was suspended by the school board last year after the Arizona state legislature declared the classes illegal and threatened to withhold $14 million from the school district if they weren’t discontinued.
The board had voted unanimously in December to approve a desegregation plan that recommended teaching culturally relevant courses in the state’s schools. But the plan also contained an objection to offering the courses for core credit that had been approved by the board in an…
This article was first published in Huffington Post Latino Voices.
Roque Planas is Associate Editor at Huffington Post Latino Vocies.
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