Textbook Censorship
The Texas State Board of Education decides what every student in Texas public schools will learn from kindergarten through high school. The board does so by adopting curriculum standards and textbooks for public schools in the state.
For decades, politicians on the State Board of Education and their activist allies have taken advantage of this flawed system to dismiss the advice of experts and scholars. They have instead worked tod inject their personal views into textbooks on everything from evolution and climate change to the history of slavery, civil rights and separation of church and state.
Resources
The State Board of Education: Dragging Texas Schools into the Culture Wars (2008 report)
Evolution, Creationism & Public Schools: Surveying Texas Scientists (2008 report)
Culture Wars and the Classroom (2010 report)
Senate Bill 6: Changes in the Textbook Adoption Process (2011 report)
Texas Science Curriculum Standards: Challenges (2012 report)
Science Textbook Review (2013 report)
Social Studies Textbook Review (2014 report)