Special features: additional scenes; students profiles; music video; behind the scenes. Co-production of Dos Vatos Productions and the Independent Television Service (ITVS) ; produced in association with Latino Public Broadcasting and Arizona Public Media ; funding provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
Summary:
"While 48 percent of Mexican-American students currently drop out of high school, Tucson (Ariz.) High [School's] Mexican American Studies Program has become a national model of educational success, with 93 percent of enrolled students graduating from high school. However, Arizona lawmakers [state school superintendents Tom Horne and John Huppenthal and Gov. Jan Brewer have] shut the program down because they believe the students are being indoctrinated with dangerous ideology and embracing destructive ethnic chauvinism"--Container.
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