Federal judge Wallace Tashima upheld an Arizona state law that prohibited curriculum that was geared to students of one ethnicity and was intended to develop a resentment of one class of people. Judge Tashima ruled for the right of states to determine their own curricula for students; “The Court’s rulings stem in large part from the considerable deference that federal courts owe to the State’s authority to regulate public school education.”
UPDATED: Federal judge rules against TUSD’s Mexican American Studies