Tucson's Ethnic-Studies Program Violates Ariz. Law, Judge Says

Protesters gather at the Arizona Department of Education on June 15 in Phoenix to support the Tucson school district's Mexican American studies program. On Tuesday, Dec. 15, an Arizona administrative law judge affirmed a prior decision by the state's schools chief that the Tucson program violates state law, paving the way for the possible demise of the program.

—Ross D. Franklin/AP-File

By Stephen Ceasar, Los Angeles Times (MCT)

Los Angeles

The Tucson school district’s Mexican American studies program violates state law, an Arizona administrative law judge ruled Tuesday, paving the way for the possible demise of the program.

The judge affirmed a prior decision by the state’s schools chief that the Tucson Unified School District’s program violates a law that aims to outlaw...