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April 27, 2011

Tucson Ethnic Studies Students Shut Down School Board Meeting 
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In Arizona, Tucson students shut down a school board meeting Tuesday
night by chaining themselves to the chairs of the board members. The
students were protesting a plan to terminate the school system's
acclaimed Ethnic Studies/Mexican American Studies program as an
accredited program. The school board meeting was canceled minutes before
it was scheduled to begin when nine students took over the seats of the
board and then chained themselves to the seats.



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