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Arizona Legislature Bans Ethnic Studies Programs
Fri Apr 30, 12:07 pm ET
Just a week after signing into law the country's toughest immigration bill into law,Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer will soon decide whether to endorse another piece of legislation that outlaws ethnic studies programs in public schools.
The bill forbids Arizona schools from using any curriculum that promotes "the overthrow of the United States government" or "resentment toward a race or class of people." It also disallows any curriculum that's "designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group" or that seeks to "advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals."
Arizona's Superintendent for Public Instruction Tom Horne has said he's backing the measure because ethnic studies programs encourage "ethnic chauvinism," and promote "Latinos to rise up and create a new territory out of the southwestern region of the United States."
Republican state Sen. Jack Harper also voted for the bill, saying that certain Hispanic-themed ethnic studies programs are "trying to say that somebody who came to this country illegally is somehow oppressed. That's crazy stuff."
But the legislation's detractors say that, if the bill is signed into law, the state, not the targeted programs, would be promoting a politicized curriculum. Democratic state Sen. Linda Lopez says the bill would target a Mexican-American studies program used in her home district of Tucson. She offered an amendment—which the legislature approved— mandating that Arizona schools adopt curricula that include discussions of genocidal such as the Holocaust., so that such material would not be considered as promoting "ethnic resentment."
In another controversial shift in state education policy, the Wall Street Journal has reported that the Arizona Department of Education has begun telling principals to remove teachers who speak English with an accent from classes with students who are still learning English. Some school officials are complaining that the move will remove experienced teachers from classrooms that need them. Margaret Dugan, the state's deputy superintendent of schools, told the Journal the request is "politicizing the educational environment."
"Teachers should speak good grammar because kids pick up what they hear," Johanna Haver, an adviser to Arizona educators, told the Journal. "Where you draw the line is debatable."
The Education Department permits teachers who don't meet fluency standards to take classes to improve.
—Liz Goodwin is a national affairs writer for Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100430/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1885_1
WTH is going on in AZ?!
Fri Apr 30, 12:07 pm ET
Just a week after signing into law the country's toughest immigration bill into law,Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer will soon decide whether to endorse another piece of legislation that outlaws ethnic studies programs in public schools.
The bill forbids Arizona schools from using any curriculum that promotes "the overthrow of the United States government" or "resentment toward a race or class of people." It also disallows any curriculum that's "designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group" or that seeks to "advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals."
Arizona's Superintendent for Public Instruction Tom Horne has said he's backing the measure because ethnic studies programs encourage "ethnic chauvinism," and promote "Latinos to rise up and create a new territory out of the southwestern region of the United States."
Republican state Sen. Jack Harper also voted for the bill, saying that certain Hispanic-themed ethnic studies programs are "trying to say that somebody who came to this country illegally is somehow oppressed. That's crazy stuff."
But the legislation's detractors say that, if the bill is signed into law, the state, not the targeted programs, would be promoting a politicized curriculum. Democratic state Sen. Linda Lopez says the bill would target a Mexican-American studies program used in her home district of Tucson. She offered an amendment—which the legislature approved— mandating that Arizona schools adopt curricula that include discussions of genocidal such as the Holocaust., so that such material would not be considered as promoting "ethnic resentment."
In another controversial shift in state education policy, the Wall Street Journal has reported that the Arizona Department of Education has begun telling principals to remove teachers who speak English with an accent from classes with students who are still learning English. Some school officials are complaining that the move will remove experienced teachers from classrooms that need them. Margaret Dugan, the state's deputy superintendent of schools, told the Journal the request is "politicizing the educational environment."
"Teachers should speak good grammar because kids pick up what they hear," Johanna Haver, an adviser to Arizona educators, told the Journal. "Where you draw the line is debatable."
The Education Department permits teachers who don't meet fluency standards to take classes to improve.
—Liz Goodwin is a national affairs writer for Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100430/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1885_1
WTH is going on in AZ?!
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In other words. You worship us or nothing at all.
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Is this the beginning of the Hard on Mexicans movement?
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Damn Arizona stays ? up
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ThaChozenWun wrote: »Damn Arizona stays ? up
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Arizona's Gov. Brewer is really ? up..? is goin to get her head chopped off ? wit all the mexicans down there. Racist ? trying to keep minorities from learning their own history. wut she goin to do next? bring back slavery?
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Wasn't AZ the state to make MLK a holiday?
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well, thats the ? for you..
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Man AZ is ? disgusting.
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First Obama cheating and now this.....damn America is going to hell in a handbasket.....
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untouchable1 wrote: »Arizona Legislature Bans Ethnic Studies Programs
Fri Apr 30, 12:07 pm ET
Just a week after signing into law the country's toughest immigration bill into law,Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer will soon decide whether to endorse another piece of legislation that outlaws ethnic studies programs in public schools.
The bill forbids Arizona schools from using any curriculum that promotes "the overthrow of the United States government" or "resentment toward a race or class of people." It also disallows any curriculum that's "designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group" or that seeks to "advocate ethnic solidarity instead of the treatment of pupils as individuals."
Arizona's Superintendent for Public Instruction Tom Horne has said he's backing the measure because ethnic studies programs encourage "ethnic chauvinism," and promote "Latinos to rise up and create a new territory out of the southwestern region of the United States."
Republican state Sen. Jack Harper also voted for the bill, saying that certain Hispanic-themed ethnic studies programs are "trying to say that somebody who came to this country illegally is somehow oppressed. That's crazy stuff."
But the legislation's detractors say that, if the bill is signed into law, the state, not the targeted programs, would be promoting a politicized curriculum. Democratic state Sen. Linda Lopez says the bill would target a Mexican-American studies program used in her home district of Tucson. She offered an amendment—which the legislature approved— mandating that Arizona schools adopt curricula that include discussions of genocidal such as the Holocaust., so that such material would not be considered as promoting "ethnic resentment."
In another controversial shift in state education policy, the Wall Street Journal has reported that the Arizona Department of Education has begun telling principals to remove teachers who speak English with an accent from classes with students who are still learning English. Some school officials are complaining that the move will remove experienced teachers from classrooms that need them. Margaret Dugan, the state's deputy superintendent of schools, told the Journal the request is "politicizing the educational environment."
"Teachers should speak good grammar because kids pick up what they hear," Johanna Haver, an adviser to Arizona educators, told the Journal. "Where you draw the line is debatable."
The Education Department permits teachers who don't meet fluency standards to take classes to improve.
—Liz Goodwin is a national affairs writer for Yahoo! News
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100430/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1885_1
WTH is going on in AZ?!
no ? man, we should get rid of them. i understand the battle to uphold the immigration policy (not condone, understand) but getting rid of ethnic studies? im sure theres gonna be riots at some point, and i might move there to help picket these ? republicans (i didnt say all republicans were dumb, just these dudes in az) -
goes to show you what MOST white people think of you anywayz... im not surprised
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goes to show you what MOST white people think of you anywayz... im not surprised
and that implies that i agree with him because he is black? or does it imply that he can reach white people while you reach wiggers? for the record the them in question was arizona. if a white man here and now agrees that this is wrong, and has friends that agree this is wrong, is it not possible that most white people agree this is wrong. the government is the elite, the common "white" man is just as ? off as you are. and those outliers or white racists who dont know their time is up are getting rude awakenings. rude awakenings that the world is changing and they are obsolete and wrong.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijeXGv9QLRc
