Arizona's Ban on Latinx Studies Heads to Court

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Why won't Americans stop discriminating against Latinx students?

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>Students in Tuscon, Arizona are in the process of suing the state for its passing of a 2010 law that dismantled a Mexican-American studies program that had proven results in enhancing Latinx students’ academic performance. As The Huffington Post reported, U.S District Judge A. Wallace Tashima will hear arguments over the next two weeks regarding the 2010 law that Arizona’s lawyers have described as a necessary means of stifling the growing anti-white sentiment supposedly fueled by classes in Latinx history and studies. Jim Quinn, a lawyer representing the students, countered that "this was an innovative program... it was snuffed out for all the wrong reasons."

>The trial happening now in Tuscon is the culmination of an almost two-decades-long saga of Latinx students and teachers struggling to see themselves represented in their public school system. Beginning in the late 1990s, a collection of mostly Mexican-American teachers started working toward closing the achievement gap between the white and Latinx students in their district. Building on the historical examples of education used as a radical means of racial and ethnic uplift, the teachers decided to teach classes that featured writing by Mexican-American authors as well as classic texts from Mexican-American perspectives.