Superintendent of Public Instruction John Huppenthal has scored a major victory with yesterday’s decision by Administrative Law Judge Lewis Kowal affirming the Tucson Unified School District’s (TUSD’s) Mexican American Studies Program was in violation of A.R.S. § 15-112 as per Huppenthal’s ruling on June 15, 2011.
Stating that he was very pleased to receive the judge’s decision, Huppenthal noted that in his role as Superintendent of Public Instruction he “has a legal responsibility to uphold the law and a professional imperative to ensure that every student has access to an excellent education.”
Huppenthal said, “Upon taking office on January 3, 2011, I was faced with the immediate circumstance of the Tucson Unified School District being found in violation of A.R.S. §15-112 by the outgoing Superintendent. Instead of making a snap decision on the matter, the Arizona Department of Education, at my direction, conducted an intensive investigation, spanning many months, of TUSD’s Mexican American Studies Department (MASD) and its program.”
“In the end, I made a decision based on the totality of the information and facts gathered during my investigation –- a decision that I felt was best for all students in the Tucson Unified School District. The judge’s decision confirms that it was the right decision,” he said.
Superintendent Huppenthal indicated he will soon be issuing a final ruling regarding the matter after a thorough review of the judge’s decision.
Arizona’s former Superintendent of Public Instruction Tom Horne had long protested the TUSD’s La Raza endorsed anti-American, Mexican ethnic studies program and was instrumental in the passage of HB 2281 which “prohibits a school district or charter school from including courses or classes that either promote the overthrow of the United States government or promote resentment toward a race or class of people.”
Republican Horne is now the state Attorney General with the responsibility to ensure the effective enforcement of the law.
BRAVO!! Kudos to Judge Kowal, Superintendent John Huppenthal and especially to former Superintendent Tom Horne, who got this ball rolling, and was relentless in seeing that this Aztlan-based “Reconquista” (reconquering the Southwestern United States for Mexico) program was exposed and ultimately halted. I live in Tucson, and I’ve seen it all!
This hatred is what the TUSD was teaching in taxpayer-funded American public schools:
Thank God saner heads sometimes prevail! Proponents of political correctness will be our undoing.
Any effort to help clean up the huge anti-American, leftist, extremist cesspool that is Tucson/Pima County is to be commended by all responsible citizens of Arizona and the nation.
Thank you, Superintendent Huppenthal.
watch for a less than pleasant response from hard-core activists
TeapartyTami:
Those “activists” are active on the part of Mexico and the illegals who are intend on invading and overtaking our nation. I just watched the chilling video on Aztlan posted above by Pima Pal. Everyone needs to watch that. It tells the whole story. Those speakers were elected to represent American citizens but listen to the words coming out of their mouths!!
We need to wise up. This is an insidious movement to take over our country by taking over our schools.
My relatives originally immigrated to the USA from italy — LEGALLY!! They were thrilled to be here and become Americans. They raised their children to be proud and productive Americans, a value that has continued through my family and other immigrant families from a variety of other countries. They had a burning desire to be Americans.
Watch that video and you will be able to answer the question of whether that same desire burns in the hearts of these people.
Very encouraging direction. It’s sad to think how long we’ve been paying for America-hate.
Thank you Judge Kowal. I thank you not only for myself, but also on behalf of my children, and those they will someday have. What has been allowed in Tucson public schools, with these so-called “ethnic studies” is reprehensible, teaching national chauvinism (for Mexico) and fomenting hatred (against America). My family were eastern European immigrants escaping brutality. They love this country with unbridled patriotic fervor.
matt, my point is that we should be prepared for some vociferous response to the ruling….too much is invested in this agenda which
has been creeping into our schools and culture for many decades.
i have been personally active in battling the multicultural issue in nyc, chapel hill, nc and here………
this ruling will not put an end to the radical, anti-american curricula pervading our schools. look into the inernational baccalureate curriculum, the gulen charter schools, agenda 21 and questionable books purchased for school libraries.. (state representative jack harper has revealed this information) all evident in phoenix and tucson schools.. there is much work to do..and all of you who are parents should be watchdogs…
So what? Colleges have Ethnic Studies. The ball is already rolling
http://www.facebook.com/#!/pages/Friends-of-John-Ward/118700028223873
all who are concerned about this issue.. could help john ward, the whistle blower teacher, who is currently suing the tusd and could use donations for the long litigation process.
With the largest school district out of Maricopa county losing 10% of its funding until corrections are made, this is a major news item. Phoenix TV stations appear to have all but buried the story, as they have the long process to get here. Had the decison gone the other way, it would have been the lead story on every local news broadcast. This is ‘underbelly’ as raw as they come, and agenda-driven stations and their sponsors want a lid on it. This is in correlation with their throwing everything but the kitchen sink at Russell Pearce, and now Joe Arpaio.
Actually, this and more were all exposed back in 2003 by writer Linda Bentley. Our state legislature is to be commended for finally doing something about it in 2010 by passing the statute.
http://americanpatrol.com/REFERENCE/Aztlan-PavingWayTo.html