It’s frightening how uninformed some of the people who are responsible for making education policy in the U.S. appear to be. Take Tucson Unified School District Governing Board member Michael Hicks.

A request filed last month by the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund on behalf of Latino plaintiffs to reinstate the MAS programs at TUSD has been denied this week.

A caravan of cars, full of activists and writers will be heading soon from Houston, Texas, to Tucson, Arizona. It's cargo: books that were allegedly banned from the Tucson Unified School District.