OPEN LETTER TO SUPERINTENDENT OF THE TUCSON UNIFIED SCHOOL DISTRICT, DR. JOHN J PEDICONE (COLLABORATION WITH YAGO CURA)
Superintendent John J. Pedicone, Ph.D. Tucson Unified School District 1010 E. Tenth St. Tucson, AZ 85719 (520) 225-6000 Hinchas de Poesía c/o Yago S. Cura, Publisher Max Macias, Librarian 11928 Venice Blvd. L.A., CA 90066 Dear Dr. Pedicone: We have never met, and my son and/or daughter is not matriculated in the school district you oversee. I am writing today in my capacity as the publisher of Hinchas de Poesía (www.hinchasdepoesia.com), a fledgling online literary journal, and in collaboration with Max Macias, a Chicano librarian living near Portland, Oregon. We are both members of REFORMA, although the contents of this letter and the opinions expressed herein solely belong to us (Yago S. Cura and Max Macias). We are writing to express our intense gratitude for your continuing, yet albeit wholly indirect, support of Ethnic Studies in the United States of America. Put simply, if it we...