This Teacher’s Ethnic Studies Classes Were Banned, His Students Took the District to Court—and Won

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12. They also banned a long list of books associated with MAS

Including Howard Zinn and many others. I hope that ban has been rescinded as well. This is one of my favorite documentaries for its look into the fear based racist mindset of the Arizona legislature. And for the effects of a curriculum that connects to the lives of Latino students. The graduation rate for students in this program went from 50-60% to over 90% and many were going on to college.

The irony is that most of these white colonists in the legislature have been in the state less than 100 years. I worked one year in Phoenix with a Latino family who have owned ranch land in Arizona for 300 years. And yet they are the ones who are asked for "papers" by colonists.