Texas Ed Board Guts Instruction on Key Constitutional Protection for Religious Freedom New Social Studies Standards Suggest that Separation of Church and State Is Not a Key Principle of Constitution FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 21, 2010 The Texas State Board of Education today gutted a key protection for religious freedom by suggesting in new social […]
Texas Ed Board Member Uses Prayer to Make a Political Point TFN President: Dunbar’s Actions Poison Good Will in Debate about What Students Should Learn about Protections for Religious Freedom FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE May 21, 2010 As the Texas State Board of Education prepared this morning to debate what public school students should learn in […]
Even before the Texas State Board of Education took up its expected debate today over what students will learn about separation about church and state in their social studies classrooms, board member Cynthia Dunbar, R-Richmond, made her position clear. She offered the board’s opening prayer this morning and removed any doubt about what she and […]
9:43 – The Texas State Board of Education is set today to take a final vote on proposed new social studies curriculum standards for public schools. The board first has to finish its debate over proposed amendments to the standards. We expect that debate will resume later this morning. We expect one of the key […]
Yesterday’s debate over social studies curriculum standards at the Texas State Board of Education mostly illuminated political biases of board members more than it did good education policies. Many conservative board members opposed, for example, restoring civil rights and labor leader Dolores Huerta to third-grade standards because they say she’s a socialist and isn’t an […]
