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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]
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]
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.
[19] He drafted a 2010 state law (which was adopted and went into effect in 2011, as HB 2281.) that effectively banned ethnic studies, and led to the Tucson Unified School District board closing its program in January 2012. [20] [21] A group of students and parents sued over the state law, leading to seven years of legal proceedings.
Ethnic studies. Ethnic studies, in the United States, is the interdisciplinary study of difference—chiefly race, ethnicity, and nation, but also sexuality, gender, and other such markings—and power, as expressed by the state, by civil society, and by individuals. Its origin comes before the civil rights era, as early as the 1900s.
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.
[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 ...