SBOE REVIEW OF CSCOPE CURRICULUM SYSTEM ALREADY RAISING RED FLAGS State Board Members Appear to Be Moving Down the Same Road That Forced Legislators to Act in 1995 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 18, 2013 The president of the Texas Freedom Network warns that the State Board of Education’s coming review of a curriculum product used […]
Another anti-Sharia measure received a surprise hearing in the House State Affairs Committee on Wednesday, even though there was no advance notice for the hearing. HJR 43 is a constitutional amendment by Dan Flynn, R-Van, stating that a “court of this state may not enforce, consider, or apply any religious or cultural law.” Strangely, the […]
Bill Would Force Texas Colleges and Universities to Look the Other Way When Faculty or Students Engage in Bogus ‘Scientific’ Research into Creationism FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE April 17, 2013 Texas Freedom Network President Kathy Miller today called on members of the Texas Higher Education Committee to reject a bill that would protect “intelligent design”/creationism as […]
Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond. […]
Note to readers: This is a blog from April 2013 commenting on the Senate committee passage of Senate Bill 1639, which later failed. Claims of Sharia law posing a threat to Texas and the nation are unfounded and Islamophobic. “The United States and Texas Constitutions are the law of the land, and no religious tradition […]
