Texas Eagle Forum, a chapter of the national far-right organization founded by Phyllis Schlafly, has released its “Legislative Scorecards” for the recent legislative session in Austin. TEF’s scorecards rate the conservativism of state lawmakers based on their votes on selected issues. Most of the issue areas are standard right-wing stuff, such as allowing concealed handguns on college campuses […]
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It’s Likely to Get Worse, Unfortunately
No one should be surprised that right-wingers are pressuring writing teams to craft new Texas public school social studies curriculum standards that are slanted to the political right. We reported in June that State Board of Education members had seeded the writing teams with far-right extremists who rail against immigration and think new President Obama is […]
Quotas for Conservatives in Social Studies?
The San Antonio Express-News has this story up online today: Texas high school students would learn about such significant individuals and milestones of conservative politics as Newt Gingrich and the rise of the Moral Majority — but nothing about liberals — under the first draft of new standards for public school history textbooks. And the […]
Another Blow to School Voucher Schemes
A variety of studies in recent years have revealed that private school voucher schemes don’t live up to their promises of giving families better options and improving public schools through competition. Now a new study reveals that private schools most available to the low-income families that vouchers are supposed to help tend not to offer academic benefits […]
Help Celebrate TFN’s 14th Anniversary
It’s been a busy year for the Texas Freedom Network: battling far-right extremism on the State Board of Education, promoting responsible sexuality education for Texas teens, defeating private school voucher schemes and efforts to undermine stem cell research in the Legislature, defending religious freedom and separation of church and state. But all we’ve accomplished would […]
