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The Mexican American Studies Department Programs in the Tucson Unified School District was established in 1998 by high school teacher, Curtis Acosta, in an effort to help Chicano/a and Latino/a students reach their full potentials. [6] The department grew from offering a few classes at the beginning to about 43 classes in the years following. [6]
English. Precious Knowledge is a 2011 educational and political documentary that centers on the banning of the Mexican-American Studies (MAS) Program in the Tucson Unified School District of Arizona. The documentary was directed by Ari Luis Palos and produced by Eren Isabel McGinnis, the founders of Dos Vatos Productions. [2][3]
May 1951 (as a segregated school) [4] 1978 (as John Spring Junior High School) [5] School district. Tucson Unified School District. Dunbar School was a segregated middle school in Tucson, Arizona which closed as an integrated school in 1978. [5] The school, during its segregated era, was named after African-American poet Paul Laurence Dunbar.
Tucson Unified School District (TUSD) is the largest school district of Tucson, Arizona, in terms of enrollment. Dr. Gabriel Trujillo is the superintendent, appointed on September 12, 2017, by the Governing Board. [2] As of 2016, TUSD had more than 47,670 students.
Flowing Wells witch trial. The Flowing Wells witch trial was a series of events that resulted in the 1971 firing of Ann Stewart, a tenured teacher, by the Flowing Wells Unified School District in Tucson, Arizona, under charges that she claimed to be a witch and taught witchcraft to her students. A later legal challenge overturned the firing and ...
[16] The Tucson Unified School District offers these culturally relevant courses pursuant to a federal court order, arising from a decades-long desegregation lawsuit. [13] [17] In 2017, HB 2281 was criticized for showing "discriminatory intent" and violating the constitutional rights of the students of Arizona from Federal Judge A. Wallace ...
Tucson district goes dark In the second-largest school district in Arizona, a pre-dawn ransomware attack in January of 2023 left the Tucson Unified School District crippled.
María Luisa Legarra Urquides (December 8, 1908 – June 16, 1994) was an American educator and proponent of bilingual education. She spent her life in the US state of Arizona, but influenced national educational policies. Urquides served in local and federal roles, and received numerous awards and recognitions for her educational leadership ...