Former schools chief Huppenthal unapologetic over criticism of ethnic studies

John Huppenthal. /Source: CBS 5 News file photo

By Yoohyun Jung | Arizona Daily

The derogatory comments former Arizona School Superintendent John Huppenthal made online continue to follow him around, years after he first posted them anonymously.

Among other comments, Huppenthal previously referred to Tucson Unified School District’s Mexican American Studies program as the Ku Klux Klan, a white supremacist group, in a “different color” and its teachers as “skinheads.”

The posts were first discovered and publicized in 2014, prompting a tearful apology from Huppenthal at the time.

Now the comments have re-emerged in U.S. District Court in Tucson on the second day of a bench trial over the matter of a state law banning the ethnic-studies programs.

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