Tom Horne to Ethnic Studies: Drop Dead!
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New America Media, Commentary
Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez
Posted: Jun 19, 2009

TUCSON -- Arizona is the New South and the new South Africa. It is the home of Sheriff Joe Arpaio, where racial profiling is official policy. Now, in another form of profiling, State Superintendent of Schools Tom Horne wants to eliminate ethnic studies.

At his behest and by a 4-3 Senate panel vote, an amendment to education bill S.B. 1069 was passed that emphasizes the teaching of individualism at the expense of ethnic studies. The bill would permit the department of education to withhold 10 percent of state monies if ethnic studies continue to exist. The full legislature is expected to pass it within several weeks, and Republican Gov. Jan Brewer is expected to sign it into law.

Horne has spent two-and-a-half years pushing this bill, and it will effectively send Arizona school children into the dark ages. Overriding the concept of local control, Horne wants Arizona teachers to impose one view of America upon the state's children.

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* In protest, supporters in Tucson of ethnic studies will stage a two-day march to Phoenix on June 27-29. It's about 120 miles through desert heat. But it's one way to put the heat on Tom Horne.

Roberto Dr. Cintli Rodriguez, assistant professor at the University of Arizona, can be reached at: XColumn@gmail.com.

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