The vice president's team cited a banned Arizona ethnic studies course and a rejected Texas Mexican American studies textbook as examples of efforts to stifle Latino history teaching. But those examples are limited.
for teaching Black history are an effort to distort history for political ends.
She added that"there are many aspects of our history that some would like to overlook, erase, or at least deny." The United States has about 51 million students in K-12 public schools, and nearly 14 million are Latino, according to theWe wondered whether Harris’ claim about states trying to ban the teaching of Latino and Hispanic history was true.A 2010 Arizona law that banned teaching ethnic studies at public schools. The law targeted a Mexican American Chicano studies class in the Tucson Unified School District.The Texas example is flawed.
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