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Aug 23 ﴾Reuters﴿ ‐ A federal judge has overturned an Arizona ban on ethnic studies coursesaimed at Hispanic students saying it was motivated by racial discrimination and violatedpupils constitutional rights

The decision by Judge A Wallace Tashima issued onTuesday came in response to a lawsuit by studentsand parents challenging the law which ended aMexican American Studies or MAS program run bythe Tucson school district

The Court is convinced that decisions regardingthe MAS program were motivated by a desire toadvance a political agenda by capitalizing on race‐based fears Tashima wrote in his ruling

Officials with the Arizona Department of Educationwere not immediately available for comment

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A Tucson Unified School District member KristelAnn Foster said she was elated to be able to restore the program to classrooms

In 2006 Arizonas then‐schools superintendent and former attorney general Thomas Hornebegan a probe into MAS after an incident when a labor activist told students that Republicanswere racist Horne concluded the program violated school code and the state threatened towithhold funds until it was stopped

Tashima however backed a study conducted in 2012 ‐ the year the program was droppedfrom the syllabus in Tucson ‐ which found MAS helped improve the graduation rates and testscores of some of the districts worst‐performing students

One of those Alfred Chavez 27 said he had been on the verge of dropping out in 2006 whenhe signed up for MAS at Tucson High School He credits the classes with keeping him inschool and propelling him toward a career in education

They didnt just appeal to the A+ student They appealed to street kids the marginalizedpopulation said Chavez who works as a program specialist at Mesa Community Collegenear Phoenix It turned them on to education

About 64 percent of Arizonas school students are Hispanic according to state figures TheMAS program included units on Mexican‐American history art and literature

The attorney for the parents and students who brought the lawsuit Steve Reiss described theruling as an extraordinary win

To show that a state passed and implemented a law with discriminatory intent is extremelyhard these days Reiss said

Horne said public schools should teach students from different backgrounds to treat eachother as individuals

This decision promotes a program that does the opposite divides students by race andpromotes ethnic chauvinism he said in a statement

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