TEXAS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION APPROVES TEXTBOOKS WITH CHANGES NO ONE HAS VETTED Idea of an Open, Transparent Adoption Process Is a Sham, TFN President Says FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 21, 2014 Texas Freedom Network President Kathy Miller had the following statement on today’s State Board of Education vote to adopt new social studies textbooks […]
TFN STATEMENT ON TEXAS TEXTBOOK ADOPTION PUBLIC HEARING FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 18, 2014 This evening the State Board of Education failed to take to give preliminary approval to proposed new social studies textbooks for Texas public schools. A number of board members expressed reluctance to give that preliminary approval until they have examined all […]
Proposed social studies textbooks for Texas public schools will not include climate-change denial. In late reversals, two publishing heavyweights, Pearson Education and McGraw-Hill, have both confirmed that they will submit corrected textbooks this week at the SBOE. TFN distributed the following news release in response to the corrections. Publishers have agreed to correct or remove […]
Texas State Board of Education Still Must Vote on Adopting the Revised Textbooks FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE November 17, 2014 Publishers have agreed to correct or remove inaccurate passages promoting climate change denialism from new social studies textbooks proposed for Texas public schools, a coalition of science and education groups announced this afternoon. This news comes […]
Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond. […]
