AUSTIN, Texas ― The Texas State Board of Education voted Wednesday to create statewide standards for classes on Mexican-American studies, handing a major victory to educators and activists who have pressed for wider adoption of such courses for the past five years. “I wouldn’t even begin to do it just to tell you how historic this moment is in Texas,” board member Ruben Cortez told HuffPost. An existing Mexican-American studies course in Houston public schools will be used as a model to develop the state standard. The movement to bring ethnic studies to public schools gained national attention in 2010 when Arizona Republicans passed a law banning a Mexican-American studies program in Tucson. Last year, Indiana passed a law requiring public schools to offer ethnic studies.

Source: Huffington Post April 12, 2018 00:33 UTC