Here are some of the week’s most notable quotes culled from news reports from across Texas, and beyond. […]
Recent Blogs
SBOE Candidate: Celeste Zepeda Sanchez
Because of redistricting, all 15 seats on the Texas State Board of Education will be up for grabs in the November 2012 elections. The results of those elections will determine whether the religious right’s corrosive influence over public education will weaken or grow as the board considers what the next generation of public school students […]
Falling Behind on Science Education
A national poll shows that 97 percent of American voters think improving the quality of science education is important to the country’s ability to compete globally. Yet most of those voters give the quality of science education in America right now only a “C” or lower and rate it behind that of most other countries. […]
What They Really Think
From a religious-right group’s email to activists today: “Rick Santorum is from God and will win with Christians and Catholics uniting for Santorum.” “Christians and Catholics”? As if Catholics aren’t Christians? Of course, it’s bad enough that religious-righters try to deify their favored political candidates (like Santorum). But the suggestion that Catholics are something other […]
SBOE Candidate: David Williams
Because of redistricting, all 15 seats on the Texas State Board of Education will be up for grabs in the November 2012 elections. The results of those elections will determine whether the religious right’s corrosive influence over public education will weaken or grow as the board considers what the next generation of public school students […]
