{"id":567268,"date":"2010-05-17T17:13:42","date_gmt":"2010-05-17T21:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011888834_newarizonalawtargetsethnicstudiesinpublicschools.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-05-17T17:13:42","modified_gmt":"2010-05-17T21:13:42","slug":"new-arizona-law-targets-ethnic-studies-in-public-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/567268","title":{"rendered":"New Arizona law targets ethnic studies in public schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It\u2019s all ethnic studies<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Leonard Pitts Jr.\u2019s column \u201cMy history is part of your history\u201d [Opinion, May 16] suggests that Arizona\u2019s new law restricting ethnic studies courses in public schools is too vague to be legally enforceable.<\/p>\n<p>This law, passed at the urging of Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, specifically targets the Hispanic studies program in the Tucson Unified School District (TUSD). Since TUSD has already publicly stated that it would not abandon this highly successful educational program, the law\u2019s actual legality could soon be tested.<\/p>\n<p>Using the law\u2019s wording, a reasonable person could argue that most of the K-12 curriculum that promotes EuroAmerican values and perspectives on history and social change is an ethnic-studies program violating the law, especially as that curriculum largely ignores Native American and other key ethnic aspects of American history.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 James Nason, Professor Emeritus, University of Washington<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s all ethnic studies Leonard Pitts Jr.\u2019s column \u201cMy history is part of your history\u201d [Opinion, May 16] suggests that Arizona\u2019s new law restricting ethnic studies courses in public schools is too vague to be legally enforceable. This law, passed at the urging of Arizona Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne, specifically targets the Hispanic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-567268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567268","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=567268"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/567268\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=567268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=567268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=567268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}