The coalition supporting a sound science education in Texas public schools is growing. Today the Center for Inquiry in Austin and the Clergy Letter Project launched a new Web site — Teach them Science — that promotes a 21st-century science education for Texas schoolchildren. The Web site offers a wealth of information about the Texas State Board […]
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Next Week’s Evolution ‘Show Trial’ at the SBOE
The anti-evolution Discovery Institute is crowing about next week’s scheduled science smackdown at the Texas State Board of Education. On Wednesday afternoon, the board will hear from a panel of six individuals appointed to review proposed new science curriculum standards for public schools. Three of the reviewers — nominated by far-right board members — are creationists who […]
More Phony Arguments from Anti-Science Fanatics
The folks over at the Discovery Institute, an anti-evolution pressure group based in Seattle, appear to have little problem with irony (even if they do have problems with the truth). Robert Crowther, DI’s director of communications, has written a letter to the editor at the San Antonio Express-News, offering his disingenous critique of a pro-evolution […]
Sweeping Away the SBOE’s Authority
State Sen. Rodney Ellis, D-Houston, has just filed legislation that would strip the Texas State Board of Education of all authority assigned to it by statute. Among the board’s powers that would go away: setting curriculum standards and adopting textbooks. That authority would be transferred to the Texas Education Agency. The only authority the board would […]
Following the Money
Records recently filed with the Internal Revenue Service show that James Leininger, a San Antonio businessman and sugar daddy for the religious right in Texas, continued through at least 2007 to fund efforts to recruit pastors into the Republican political machine in this state and across the country. In 2005 the Texas Restoration Project spent […]
