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Tucson district board backs cultural courses
Ethnic studies texts won’t be in Tucson classrooms
Judge rejects request to reinstate TUSD class
Ethnic studies embers still burn as bill aims to outlaw political speech in classrooms
Just when it seemed the conflict in Tucson Unified School District was nearly resolved, Sen. Lori Klein has sponsored a bill aimed at the teachers of the defunct Mexican American...
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Huppenthal accepts judge’s ruling of illegal on ethnic studies program
State schools chief John Huppenthal today accepted an administrative law judge’s findings that Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies program is illegal. The school district’s governing board will now...
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Judge upholds ethnic studies decision, orders money withheld from TUSD
An administrative law judge today upheld findings by Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal that controversial courses taught in the Tucson Unified School District violate a 2010 law aimed at...
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State’s ethnic studies attorneys use TUSD officials’ words against them
Attorneys for Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal say that the words of board members and brass of Tucson Unified School District make the case that the district violates the...
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Judge orders desegregation expert to help TUSD
A federal judge has ordered a desegregation expert to help resolve a decades-long battle to end racial disparity in the Tucson Unified School District. U.S. District Judge David Bury asked...
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TUSD board member calls Mexican-American studies a ‘cult’
Mark Stegeman, a Democratic member of the Tucson Unified School District governing board, used to be in favor of the Mexican-American Studies program, but he had an “epiphany” during a...
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Hearing to test ruling against Mexican-American Studies
[caption id="attachment_38571" align="alignleft" width="300" caption="State Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal, who ruled that the Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican-American Studies program violates state law, is expected to be called...
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State audits results in $1.9 M+ fine for Tucson Unified School District
The Tucson Unified School District has been fined more than $1.9 million. A state Department of Education audit found that TUSD failed to provide enough instructional hours for seventh- and...
