TUCSON, Ariz. – The Tucson Unified School District could lose a large chunk of its state funding over “culturally relevant” classes that allegedly violate state law.

The state’s outgoing superintendent, John Huppenthal, sent a letter of noncompliance to Tucson Unified School District Superintendent H.T. Sanchez on Jan. 2 over alleged violations of state law that prohibit schools from teaching courses that promote the overthrow of the United States government, promote resentment toward a race or class of people, or advocate ethnic solidarity over students as individuals, according to the letter, published by the Arizona Daily Star.

The state shut down TUSD’s Mexican American Studies program for violating the same state law and reached a settlement agreement with the district in 2012 that requires school officials to submit materials and curriculum for culturally relevant English, United States History and United States Government classes.

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Huppenthal alleges in the letter that TUSD officials provided incomplete and inconsistent information, and continue to defy state law with their current course offerings.

“Notably, while TUSD’s original violations related to classes taught from the Mexican American perspective, it now appears that some TUSD classes taught from the African American perspective also violate state law,” Huppenthal wrote.

“If TUSD does not act to correct the violations … by March 4, 2015, the Superintendent of Public Instruction, in consultation with the Arizona Department of Education, will determine whether to withhold ten per cent of the monthly apportionment of state aid that would otherwise be due to TUSD until such violations are corrected.”

Huppenthal provided numerous examples of the violations, including lyrics from Rage Against the Machine’s “Take the Power Back” used in the U.S. History Culturally Relevant Mexican American Perspective class at Cholla High Magnet School:

“The teacher stands in front of the class; But the lesson plan he can’t recall; The student’s eyes don’t perceive the lies; Bouncing off every F****** wall; His composure well kept; I guess he fears playing the fool; The complacent students sit and listen to some of that Bull**** that he learned in school.”

The superintendent also took issue with a handout titled “Black and White” from the same class that asks students “Why was American slavery the most brutal in history?”

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A different teacher teaching the same class asks students to analyze the Declaration of Independence and “write about 3 ideas in this document that are lies, hypocrisy, and break the social contract between new democracy these colonial leaders and the society they are representing.”

In Cholla High’s English from Culturally Relevant African American Perspective class, students are offered “An Introduction to Hip Hop Presented by Master Teacher, KRS-One.”

In that enlightening lesson, 1990s rapper KRS-One explains that Hip Hop “is defined as artistic response to oppression.

“Those using the English language to describe Hip Hop while misspelling Hiphop and or Hip Hop as hip-hop are not only grammatically incorrect; they also undermine the importance of what Hiphop really is to Hiphoppas. They participate in Hip Hop’s enslavement by reducing our culture and way of life to a music genre and product to be bought and sold,” KRS-One, born Lawrence Parker, writes.

“Again, Hiphop is not a product to be bought and sold; it is the inalienable right of all Hiphoppas. Hip Hop is OUR name!”

U.S. History and English classes at Pueblo Magnet School and Tucson Magnet High School also allegedly violated state law by incorporating the Mayan concept of Lak’Ech, as well as the four Texcatlipocas – Aztec creator gods.

Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello tweeted the lyrics cited in Huppenthal’s letter “are only dangerous if u teach it right.”

Cholla Magnet High School teacher Corey Jones, who uses the lyrics in his U.S. History Culturally Relevant Mexican-American Perspective course, told Rolling Stone he’s “embarrassed” by the state’s laws banning the material and he has no plans to change the course.

“Arizona’s becoming a more fascist state,” he said. “When you’re banning and censoring material, for a state that proclaims local control, for a state that proclaims so much freedom – and yet in Phoenix you’re having one of the highest elected officials of the state comb through my curriculum and say, ‘This is illegal, you can’t teach that’ – the contradictions are glaring.”

Superintendent Sanchez released a statement last week that said he requested a meeting with Huppenthal, but did not get a response, according to the magazine.

“These courses were developed specifically under the court order,” he wrote. “That order – the Unitary Status Plan – requires us to develop and implement culturally relevant courses taught from both the Mexican-American and African-American perspectives.”

Arizona Department of Education spokeswoman Sally Stewart told Rolling Stone that the new superintendent, Diane Douglas, is expected to “keep the ball rolling” in Tucson after she takes over this week.