It’s bad enough that anti-science extremists are now calling the shots on the Texas State Board of Education. It’s true parody, however, when the state board’s chairman — a dentist — pretends to be an evolutionary biologist. Don McLeroy, R-Bryan, whom Gov. Rick Perry named as state board chairman last year, has written an opinion […]
TFN Applauds Pro-Science Draft Curriculum Standards Teacher Work Groups Propose 21st-Century Science Standards that Support Strong Instruction on Evolution and Block Teaching on Creationism FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 23, 2008 AUSTIN The president of the Texas Freedom Network is praising proposed new public school science curriculum standards that put the interests of students above politics […]
The looming education battle in Texas over evolution and creationism moved closer today, with supporters of sound science on the offensive. The Texas Education Agency today posted proposed new science curriculum standards for grades K-12, crafted by teacher work groups, for public schools. As the Texas Freedom Network reports in a press release, the proposed standards […]
A Roman Catholic bishop is telling a prominent far-right group to look elsewhere for congregations willing to break the law by promoting partisan politics from the pulpit during this year’s general election campaign. Talk to Action has more here. The Texas Freedom Network has been a leading voice in exposing far-right efforts to drag our […]
The Liberty Legal Institute — the legal arm of the far-right Free Market Foundation, which itself is the Texas affiliate of James Dobson’s Focus on the Family — spends hundreds of thousands of dollars each year using the courts to promote the religious right’s public policy agenda. (You can read more about Liberty Legal and the […]
