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Weekly Update, Week of January 30th: The Troubles in Tucson, Pushback, the Broad Borg and More | Seattle Education

Weekly Update, Week of January 30th: The Troubles in Tucson, Pushback, the Broad Borg and More | Seattle Education:

Weekly Update, Week of January 30th: The Troubles in Tucson, Pushback, the Broad Borg and More

It seems that all eyes are focused on Tucson now and for very good reason. The powers that be in Tucson have banned books and closed the Ethnic Studies department of all the schools in that district. As I posted last Friday in the weekly update Weekly Update, January 27, 2012: In Tucson racism is alive and well, Rahm bus(ted) in Chicago and other stories in education:

The powers that be thought that all they had to do was ban a few books and close the Ethnic