TUCSON, AZ -- The Department of Education released the results of a new study Monday showing that La Raza students at the Tucson Unified School District do not do better on the AIMS test than other Hispanic students.
This study was prompted after the Ethnic Studies department said students who participated in their courses did better on the state's standardized test.
“It has become an urban myth in Tucson that Ethnic Studies students do better than other Hispanic students on the AIMS test,” Arizona’s schools superintendent Tom Horne said. “In my view, nothing justifies the immorality of separating students by race and teaching them separately with curriculum that promotes ethnic chauvinism.”
Horne goes on to say that this scientific study establishes the difference between Ethnic study students and other Hispanic students “are not statistically significant” and that there is “no statistical or practical difference between the groups.”
