{"id":5084650,"date":"2018-01-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-01-02T05:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ctlatinonews.com\/arizona-cant-ban-mexican-american-studies-anymore-judge-says\/"},"modified":"2018-01-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-01-02T05:00:00","slug":"arizona-cant-ban-mexican-american-studies-anymore-judge-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/2018\/01\/02\/arizona-cant-ban-mexican-american-studies-anymore-judge-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Arizona Can\u2019t Ban Mexican-American Studies Anymore, Judge Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- Ad Header --><!-- begin yahoo flurry header bootstrap --><\/p>\n<div class=\"main\">\n<div id=\"main\">\n<article id=\"us_5a442f28e4b025f99e199496\" class=\"entry js-entry component loaded entry--standard\">\n<div class=\"entry__content js-entry-content\">\n<div class=\"entry__body js-entry-body\">\n<div id=\"entry-text\" class=\"entry__text js-entry-text bn-entry-text yr-entry-text\">\n<div class=\"content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text\">\n Photo credit: Kendall\/Hunt Higher Education<br \/>\n&nbsp;<br \/>\nA federal judge on Wednesday put the final nail in the coffin of Arizona&#8217;s Republican-backed law banning Mexican-American studies classes in Tucson public schools. \u00c2\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text\">\nThe final judgment issued by Senior Judge A. Wallace Tashima after a <a class=\"bn-clickable\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/ruling-arizona-mexican-american-studies_us_5988f877e4b0449ed504e5ff\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two-week bench trial<\/a> last summer caps a seven-year legal battle over conservative attempts to restrict what books could be used or subjects taught in Tucson&#8217;s majority-Latino schools.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text\">\nConservative lawmakers led by then-Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne and then-state Sen. John Huppenthal, who later succeeded Horne, derided Tucson\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Mexican-American studies curriculum as an anti-American politicization of public school classrooms. To shut the classes down, they spearheaded the passage of a state law in 2010 that prohibited classes aimed at students of a specific ethnicity, that fostered racial discord or that encouraged the overthrow of the U.S. government.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text\">\nIn Wednesday&#8217;s judgment, however, Tashima wrote that conservative lawmakers passed the ethnic studies restrictions not for a legitimate educational purpose, but for an invidious discriminatory racial purpose and a politically partisan purpose. \u009d (The senior judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit was sitting by assignment to hear the case in U.S. District Court.)\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"inline-newsletter_placeholder\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text\">\nNo officials may carry out any part of the law, the judgment says. <a class=\"bn-clickable\" href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/unconstitutional-arizona-ban_us_599cd201e4b0d97c3fffdc9d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tashima ruled<\/a> in August that the law violates the students&#8217; First Amendment rights by restricting information and the 14th Amendment&#8217;s equal protection clause by targeting Latinos.\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"content-list-component bn-content-list-text yr-content-list-text text\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><em><strong>To read full article, please visit: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/arizona-cant-ban-mexican-american-studies-anymore-judge-says_us_5a442f28e4b025f99e199496\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/entry\/arizona-cant-ban-mexican-american-studies-anymore-judge-says_us_5a442f28e4b025f99e199496<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; A federal judge on Wednesday put the final nail in the coffin of Arizona&#8217;s Republican-backed law banning Mexican-American studies [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","ghostkit_customizer_options":"","ghostkit_custom_css":"","ghostkit_custom_js_head":"","ghostkit_custom_js_foot":"","ghostkit_typography":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[173,1004,1005],"tags":[1322],"ppma_author":[565],"class_list":["post-5084650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-education","category-ma-education","category-ri-education","tag-ethnic-studiesmexican-american-studiesmexicans-in-the-u-s-mexicans-in-ct"],"acf":[],"mb":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"Jermaine Smith","author_link":"https:\/\/latinonewsnetwork.com\/ctln\/author\/jay\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"&nbsp; 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