Talk:Mexican American Studies Department Programs, Tucson Unified School District

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Past tense or present tense for opening sentence
"The Mexican American Studies Department Programs provided", should it not be "provides." The program shut down in 2010 but the narrative says it has come back at least in part.Sam* (talk) 19:26, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Source for 2010 law
It would be great to be able to link to the 2010 law that banned the program. Sam* (talk) 19:25, 14 November 2014 (UTC)

Curriculum
There is a large content gap on the curriculum section. I plan to fill in the gap with content from the article "Developing Critical Consciousness: Resistance Literature in a Chicano Literature Class" by Curtis Acosta.

Books Banned Due to HB 2281
There is a need to expand on why these individual books were band instead of grouping them all under a couple of reasons. Mizraimbelman (talk) 17:44, 2 November 2016 (UTC) Mizraimbelman

Citation
The citations are mostly to news articles and would be helpful to link to other scholarly sources. Mizraimbelman (talk) 17:43, 2 November 2016 (UTC) Mizraimbelman

Citation
Citations 7 and 8 don't exist anymore. Mizraimbelman (talk) 18:10, 9 November 2016 (UTC) Mizraimbelman

Bibliography for additional information
Here is my bibliography for changes I hope to make later on the page. Acosta, Curtis. "Developing Critical Consciousness: Resistance Literature in a Chicano Literature Class." The English Journal 97.2 (2007): 36-42. JSTOR. Web. Diaz, Tony. "Arizona Gets Schooled: Update on Ban of Mexican American Studies #MayaVsAZ." The Huffington Post. Huffingtonpost.com. Huffingtonpost.com, 11 Aug. 2015. Web. 16 Nov. 2016. Planas, Roque. "Arizona Law That Banned Mexican-American Studies May Be Discriminatory, Court Rules." The Huffington Post. HuffingtonPost.com, 07 July 2015. Web. 16 Nov. 2016. Planas, Roque. "Mexican-American Studies Ban Unlikely To See Trial This Year." The Huffington Post. Huffingtonpost.com, 29 Sept. 2016. Web. 16 Nov. 2016. "Superintendent Diane Douglas Issues Statement on Ethnic Studies Ruling." Sonoran News (Cave Creek, AZ) Jul 08 2015. Web. Mizraimbelman (talk) 15:52, 21 November 2016 (UTC)MizraimBelman

Suggestions to improve article
Selenaj03 (talk) 01:28, 3 October 2017 (UTC) History:

Author cited when the Mexican-American studies program was created, but author didn't explain why it was created in the first place. Be more specific about what types of classes the program provided, and what teachers taught them. Provide more statistics to prove why the program was claimed to be successful. Cite individuals who have benefited from the program.

Demographics: Add more information about demographics. What are the implications behind a certain group being more likely to participate in the program? Compare the demographics to the state demographics.

Visions & Goals: The goals of the program come across as very simplistic. Perhaps include quotes from the creator(s) of the program.

Curriculum: Expand on the last two points: How did teachers try to involve parents? and what types of community service events were students required to attend? What was the reason for involving parents? Why did the curriculum extend beyond the classroom?

Controversy: This section only mentions why the governor opposed the program. Was anyone else against it (parents, other students, teachers)? "the court found that the Mexican American Studies Department Programs were not in accordance with the law" ==> what specific reasons did the court cite? What happened to the students who were part of the program? Were they forced to switch to different courses? What was the students' reaction to the ruling?

Consequences of HB 2281: Update information if a ruling has already been issued.

Books Banned Due to HB 2281: Instead of generalizing why all the books mentioned were banned, give specific reasons why each book was banned. Provide arguments used to ban each one.

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Consequences of HB 2281 Add new section: Gonzalez vs. Douglas

On August 22, 2017 Judge A. Wallace Tashima ruled that the Arizona school district had violated the students' First and Fourteenth Amendment rights by eliminating the Mexican American Studies Program in Tucson's public schools.

Because the ban of the Mexican American studies program had deprived the students from acquiring certain knowledge, Judge Tashima found the Tucson school district had interfered with the students' First Amendment right. .

The judge further ruled that former superintendent Tom Horne, who initiated the campaign to remove the program, along with other school officials were motivated by racial bias and thereby violated the students' Fourteenth Amendment right.

Proposed additions and changes to the article
Within the topic paragraph of the article I plan to edit the closing sentence providing more detail to the "controversy" being mentioned and how it arose from the MAS Program. Within the History section I plan to make a few edits that overall updates the status of the program. I mainly edited, combined, and reorganized sentences to make the paragraph flow more and sound more official; due to the sentence structure seeming slightly scattered. I am debating adding content to the Demographic section from more recent sources about the specifics within the hispanic/latino/a community in Arizona, though that section briefly but simply covers most important factors regarding the program. I have previously edited the Vision and Goals section earlier this fall, editing and cleaning up the first sentence, and adding a third sentence due to a content gap regarding the true intentions of the MAS Program, though I am going back and revising both in more depth. The controversy section is what stood out to the most in regard to lack of organization and sentence structure, as well as a possible content gap regarding why the ban of the MAS Program was so important to the student youth and hispanic/latino/a community as a whole at that time, and the actions being taken by the community to oppress the HB 2281 law. I plan on reorganizing and adding to the paragraph for the audience to better understand the definition of "controversy" within the sensitivity of this topic.