Huppenthal, Horne testifying
By Yoohyun Jung | Arizona Daily Star
The legal battle over an ethnic-studies program at Tucson’s largest school district resumed in court Monday, seven years after an Arizona law went into effect, leading to its demise.
U.S. Circuit Judge A. Wallace Tashima is overseeing the bench trial in Tucson at the U.S. District Court in Arizona.
At issue is whether state officials had discriminatory intent in enacting and enforcing the 2010 law that bans ethnic-studies programs that promote the overthrow of the federal government, resentment toward a race or class of people, advocate for ethnic solidarity and are designed primarily for pupils of a particular ethnic group.
The legal challenge to have the law thrown out was originally brought by a group of independent Tucson Unified School District educators and students who argued that the law violated their constitutional rights.
