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Arizona's HB 2281: Is a Little "Unum" Really So Bad?
by Frederick M. Hess • May 20, 2010 at 8:45 am
Cross-posted from Education Week
Cross-posted from Education Week
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In Monday's Washington Post, education columnist Valerie Strauss took issue with Arizona superintendent Tom Horne for promoting legislation (focused primarily on ethnic studies classes) that "pretends to be about education but is all about politics." Strauss wrote, "If you think Arizona state government officials would have something better to do than go after an ethnic studies program they don't like, you'd be wrong."
Strauss reports that Horne is so over-the-top that he thought it inappropriate for a Hispanic activist to tell Tucson high school students that "Republicans hate Latinos." Maybe it's because I'm some kind of bitter partisan, but I totally understand why Horne might find that troubling.
