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Students Storm Tucson School Board Meeting, Force Postponement of Ethnic Studies Vote « Student Activism

Students Storm Tucson School Board Meeting, Force Postponement of Ethnic Studies Vote « Student Activism

Students Storm Tucson School Board Meeting, Force Postponement of Ethnic Studies Vote

Nine high school students burst into a room in which the Tucson, Arizona school board was scheduled to meet last night, chaining themselves into the very seats that the board members were scheduled to occupy. Their action forced the cancellation of the meeting, which has yet to be rescheduled.

The students were protesting a planned resolution that would remove ethnic studies from the core curriculum in