A federal judge has blocked an Arizona law that led to the shuttering of a popular Mexican-American history course in the Tucson school district.
Judge Wallace Tashima late last month declared the law unconstitutional, putting an end to state education officials’ efforts to restrict ethnic-studies programs or to require district officials to provide information about what is being taught in the classes.
He said that the ban was “not for a legitimate educational purpose, but for an invidious discriminatory racial purpose and a politically partisan purpose.”
