By Bob Unruh
Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN Texas The superintendent of the Arizona Department of Public Education says his agency will consider a refusal by the school district in Tucson to videotape its Raza studies classes as evidence the district is deliberately concealing its agenda.
The state had asked Tucson in view of a new state law that takes effect at the end of this year that bans promoting to students the overthrow of the United States government and other issues to record its Raza classes this fall to document what is being taught.
No said Tucson officials.
So the state which starting Jan. 1 can withhold 10 percent of the districts state funding confirmed it would cite that refusal when the dispute comes up for judicial review.
When the funds are withheld said a state letter to the district
You will have the right to appeal to an administrative law judge. If you agree to this videotape it will be helpful evidence to the administrative law judge. If you refuse we will offer that refusal as evidence to the administrative law judge that the school district has deliberately hidden facts that would show that the district is in non-compliance with H.B. 2281.
The new law was adopted this year by the legislature and signed into law by Gov. Jan Brewer. But it largely has been overshadowed by the international furor over the states plan to make illegal under state law what already is illegal under federal law being in the state without permission.
The law S.B. 1070 now is under consideration by possibly dozens of other states even as its enforcement in Arizona has been suspended by a federal judge pending a trial over its constitutionality.
S.B. 1070 even attracted the criticism of Mexican authorities who decried that it would crack down on illegal aliens in Arizona.
However Eagle Forum founder Phyllis Schlafly said the crackdown on illegals may not be the most controversial Arizona law about illegal aliens.
