Arizona students win right to contest ban on ethnic studies program
donal brown
January 12, 2012
Just as the Tucson Unified School District board voted the end the Mexican-American studies program, a federal judge ruled that students could sue to reinstate the program. The judge said teachers had no standing to contest the ruling to end the program and that teachers “have failed to demonstrate that they have a protected First Amendment right to speak within the classroom.” -db From the Courthouse News Service, January 11, 2012, by Tim Hull. Full