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the Huerta appearance is “what started the huge firestorm that led to other visits to the school” and eventually the ban. Beyond her personal experience, Dugan says the state department of education has heard complaints from “at least four or five” former teachers in the Tucson district about “anti-American propaganda” in ethnicEnsure full studies classes that leads students of specific compliance with Real Asset ethnicities to believe they cannot possibly Management succeed in the United States. Neither she International’s ﬁxed asset accounting nor Tucson personnel report hearing comsoftware for education, plaints from parents about the content in which includes ﬁxed asset the course, and Areinoff says he’s only aware accounting, inventory tracking and maintenance management. of one former teacher, who taught in the From acquiring to retiring, all assets can program “years ago,” who has spoken up. be maintained, accounted for, moved, revalued, tracked and disposed of. RAMI’s “Teenagers are very impressionable,” comprehensive system, used by education Dugan says. “When we have teachers business ofﬁcials across the country, is designed to control all aspects of the asset management life-cycle. tell them this country has been oppressive to Latinos … and they’re victims, Features include: and they need to rise up and take back • GASB compliance this country, that is teaching them almost • Barcode tracking subversion-type tactics.” She adds that • Capital project accounting • Maintenance management the former teachers have told the depart• Full audit trail ment that students are taught Arizona • Flexible depreciation • Data import wizard once belonged to Mexico, and “this is • Excel integration really Mexico, and they need to take it back. This is the United States now, and they should be teaching them that they RAMI has proven a safe and reliable choice for schools and school districts are Americans.” across the U.S., contact us today for a free Fixed Asset Management Dugan says that she’s open to talk with Info Pack and ensure your organization is conﬁdent in its ﬁxed asset Tucson but believes the mindset of some management data. in the district will prove too ethnocentric for the state department to reach any Phone: 617 426 0893 | Web: www.realassetmgt.com | Email: solution@realassetmgt.com understanding with them. Dugan says the department has requested video of the classroom to help establish if the material would pass muster with the state law but that she has not heard back. But Isquierdo says that Horne, Dugan Other districts and others don’t understand what ethnic-GASB-District-adim.indd 1 say that although they teach that?’ The simple truth is, look at our10:26:04 19/08/2010 studies classes are about. “Both Tom Horne teach ethnic studies, they do so not as a textbooks. They’re still very Eurocentric. and Margaret Dugan are basing [their crit- separate program, so they don’t expect to I’m in San Francisco, and I’d like to learn icisms] on second-hand comments and a be affected by the new legislation. “It will a little bit more about the Chinese culture. lack of understanding of American history not impact Phoenix Union, as we have It bridges understanding.” Many Arizona administrators hope to and the complexity of American history,” taken an integrationist approach to mulbridge understanding between themselves he says. “They have never gone to TUSD ticulturalism—it is embedded into our English and social studies classes,” Scrib- and the state department of education and and done their own assessment.” Ethnic-studies does touch on injus- ner says. “We do not separate out students, legislature, in order to gain greater autontice in American history like slavery of nor instruction. … All students should omy in how they teach ELLs and students who want to delve deeper into minority African-Americans, and mistreatment of learn about all cultures.” It’s important to note that studying one cultures and learn about their respective Native Americans, Isquierdo says. “Latino history has the same history of injustices. ethnicity does not devalue others, Garcia roles in American history. DA But at the end of the day, you still have to adds. “It’s not a conspiracy to divide us,” Ed Finkel is a freelance writer based in he says. “People say, ‘Why do you need to Evanston, Ill. be proud to be an American.” www.DistrictAdministration.com October 2010 61 Are you struggling with GASB compliance? http://www.realassetmgt.com http://www.realassetmgt.com http://www.DistrictAdministration.com

Table of Contents for the Digital Edition of District Administration - October 2010

District Administration - October 2010
Contents
From the Editor
Letters
News Update
Curriculum Update
Facilities Update
District Profile
Administrator Profile
Conversations
The Price of a Good Education
Dividing Arizona
Making Your School Future-Proof
Connecting Curriculum with Community
A Small District’s Big Innovator
New Books
New Products
Product Focus
Tech Disruptions
Superintendent’s Insights
Online Edge
Professional Opinion

District Administration - October 2010