Republican officials, led by Horne, accused the teachers of the Mexican-American studies classes of politicizing students and fostering resentment against white people. But Horne insisted he wanted all ethnic studies banned from the state and wrote the law broadly enough to achieve that goal over time. “I hoped to eventually eliminate them all.”The 2010 law contained four provisions limiting ethnic studies in the state’s school system. The latter provision, in theory, would have allowed the state government to also shut down African-American, Native American and Asian-American studies classes as well. But neither Horne nor his successor as superintendent of public instruction, John Huppenthal, ever found those classes out of compliance with the ethnic studies law.

Source: Huffington Post July 19, 2017 13:47 UTC