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by David Safier

Man, Tom Horne has spent a lot of Ed Supe time and Dept of Ed money trying to knock down Tucson's Ethnic Studies programs. Who knows how much time he's wasted and how many miles he's logged traveling to Tucson just to hold press conferences trashing the program.

And now he's wasted DOE money and time creating a study by Robert Franciosi, PhD, Deputy Assoc. Supe of Research and Evaluation. The title: "The Effect of Tucson Unified Ethnic ("Raza") Studies on Student Achievement." His finding? The program has no effect on achievement in reading, writing and math.

Clearly, the only reason Horne ordered the study is his rage over proponents of the program claiming it raises student achievement.