This week a federal judge officially blocked Arizona’s law banning ethnic studies in public schools. The Arizona superintendent of public instruction said Friday she disagrees with the ruling.
The original state law came in 2010 banning ethnic studies of a race that could promote racial resentment, spurred from a Mexican-American studies class in Tucson.
That class was shut down, but the federal judge declared the state law unconstitutional and that it was, itself, motivated by racial animus.
Superintendent Diane Douglas responded, saying in a statement she was disappointed and will see if there is a legislative remedy to the ruling.
Douglas’s statement continues saying the law’s provisions that stop public schools having classes that promote resentment toward a race sound like quote common sense and that they should stay.
