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Et Tu, NYT?

November 15th, 2010 · No Comments · AS, Immigration, Law and Justice

The California Supreme Court ruled today that students at UC schools can continue to benefit from AB-540, which grants in-state tuition status to graduates of California high schools as long as they attended a California high school for at least three years. This is a welcome ruling, even if it is only a small step [...]

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Other Bills Not Worth Reading

May 27th, 2010 · 1 Comment · AS, Law and Justice, Politics

We have already said a few things here about how dumb Arizona is with its unreadable laws against all things Latino. But lost in the discussion of racial profiling is this other creepy law Jan Brewer signed regarding public school curricula. Arizona schools are now forbidden from having courses which “promote the overthrow of the [...]

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Republicans and History

March 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments · AR, Politics

Not content to lie about the present and the future, Republicans have stepped up efforts to rewrite history.  In Texas, the right-wing elected officials charged with setting the state’s curriculum voted to ensure that Texas schoolchildren will learn, among other things, that the founders were Christian, there is no separation of church and state, Thomas [...]

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In Defense of the Somehow Controversial Position that Getting Rid of Teachers is not the Way to Improve Schools

March 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment · AR, Labor, Politics

Last week, the Central Falls School District in Rhode Island decided to fire its entire high school teaching staff of 93 people.  The decision was made under pressure from state and federal to turn around failing schools, and after the District failed to come to terms with the teachers’ union over compensation for extra duties [...]

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