Tom Horne to withhold funds over ethnic-studies controversy

01-04-2011

Blog by Mary Ann Zehr/Education Week

Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne announced today that Tucson Unified School District is in violation of a new state law that bans public schools from offering ethnic-studies courses that are designed for a particular ethnic group or advocate ethnic solidarity. The law went into effect on Dec. 31 and Horne took action on the matter just hours before he was expected to leave his post as state schools chief to become the state's attorney general. He sent out a press release saying he was to hold a "lame-duck session with himself" today and announce in a press conference his findings that Tucson Unified violates the new ethnic-studies ban. To the press release, he attached a statement saying that the Tucson Unified School District has 60 days to eliminate its Mexican-American studies courses or have 10 percent of its state funds withheld. (more…)

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