HUFF POST
Roque Planas | March 11, 2013

A court upheld most provisions of an Arizona state law used to prohibit a controversial Mexican-American Studies curriculum in Tucson on Friday.

The ruling dealt a blow to supporters of the suspended classes, who had hoped the courts would overturn a 2010 law championed by Arizona conservatives determined to shut down the unconventional courses.

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NEW YORK TIMES
Steven Greenhouse | January 21, 2013

As Facebook and Twitter become as central to workplace conversation as the company cafeteria, federal regulators are ordering employers to scale back policies that limit what workers can say online.

Employers often seek to discourage comments that paint them in a negative light. Don’t discuss company matters publicly, a typical social media policy will say, and don’t disparage managers, co-workers or the company itself. Violations can be a firing offense.

But in a series of recent rulings and advisories, labor regulators have declared many such blanket restrictions illegal.

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COMIC BOOK LEGAL DEFENSE FUND
Betsy Gomez | January 15, 2013

Last week, the Tucson school board voted to rescind an objection to “culturally relevant coursework” as part of a plan to desegregate district schools. The move means that the district’s acclaimed Mexican American Studies program may be reinstated, and with it, books that were forcibly removed from classrooms may be returned.

Nearly a year ago, CBLDF joined a coalition of free speech advocates, writers, and artists to decry the dissolution of Tucson’s award-winning MAS program, which the district ended in response to Arizona state legislation that declared the courses illegal. In ending the program, the school district removed several books by Mexican American and Native authors from classrooms.

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Original NDLA IF Blog postings from 2012:
January 23 - January 24 - February 6 – February 17

ALA OIF BLOG
Deborah Caldwell-Stone | August 15, 2012

Updated information on news affecting intellectual freedom, censorship, privacy, access to information, and more.