The Real News
May 3, 2011
Students in Tucson, Arizona, took over a local school board meeting in order to prevent a controversial vote from taking place on the school district's ethnic studies program. Seven current Tucson high school students and two high school alumni chained themselves to the board chairs as a large crowd occupied the meeting room and held a rally. Tucson's Unified School District has become a focal point in Arizona's heated debate over the future of its Mexican-American studies program, after House Bill 2281 banning ethnic studies in public schools was passed--a week after the passage of the notorious anti-immigration bill SB 1070. [...]
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