Wednesday, March 28, 2012

Will Arizona Go After Ethnic Studies Programs at Universities Next?

“Arizona Official Considers Targeting Mexican American Studies in University”

This is the latest news headline coming out of Arizona. See http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/politics/2012/03/28/arizona-official-considers-targeting-mexican-american-studies-in-university/

The article reports that:


Arizona’s superintendent of schools, John Huppenthal, says Tucson’s suspended Mexican American studies curricula teaches students to resent Anglos, and that the university program that educated the public school teachers is to blame. “I think that’s where this toxic thing starts from, the universities,” Arizona Superintendent of Schools John Huppenthal said in an interview with Fox News Latino.”
We will continue to follow events as they unfold.