354:. Huppenthal's ban was based on passage of House Bill 2281 (also known as HB 2281 and A.R.S. § 15–112), which he had co-authored as an Arizona State Senator. The bill targeted the TUSD Mexican-American studies program, based on claims that it was politicizing students and breeding resentment against whites. A subsequent report commissioned by Huppenthal was released in May 2011 finding no evidence of the ethnic studies program being in violation of the law. The study did, however, find that the program was helping to close the achievement gap."
393:"these are critically important programs", and decried the budget cuts to them as being "simply horrendous". Wagner then reminded Huppenthal that he had voted for a legislative bill to cut $ 550 million from the Arizona Department of Education's budget, with "a lot of that" cut being in CTE, then asked what factors led to that decision. Huppenthal did not address the question, but, when pressed, walked out of the interview.
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English. And, I'm not being humorous or racist. A lot is at stake here." Media outlets characterized the comments as "harsh", "inflammatory", and "racist screeds".
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