In 2007 the Texas Legislature passed a law encouraging the state’s public schools to teach about the influence of the Bible in history and literature. Schools can do that either by weaving such instruction into existing social studies and literature courses, or they can create full courses about the Bible. Today the Texas Freedom Network […]
Education
FAILURE TO IMPLEMENT 2007 LEGISLATION UNDERMINES STUDY OF BIBLE IN TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS
FAILURE TO IMPLEMENT 2007 LEGISLATION UNDERMINES STUDY OF BIBLE IN TEXAS PUBLIC SCHOOLS Study Shows Bible Courses Plagued by Insufficient Teacher Training, Religious Bias, Poor Instructional Materials FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE January 16, 2013 While the number of Texas school districts teaching courses is increasing, widespread failure to implement key guidelines passed by the Legislature has […]
Say What? Texas Lawmakers Go to a Private School to Talk about Public Education Reform
Perhaps the irony escaped them. Today Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst and Senate Education Committee Chairman Dan Patrick, R-Houston, held a press conference at a Catholic elementary school in Austin to talk about reforming public education. Now think about that a minute. Two of the most important elected leaders on education in the Texas Senate — […]
More Nonsense from Abstinence-Only Fanatics: ‘Drug-Based Sex Ed’
Abstinence-only activists are increasingly concerned that more and more school districts in Texas are moving to sex education policies that include medically accurate information on condoms and other forms of contraception and STD prevention. Their latest worry: Round Rock Independent School District just north of Austin. The lawyer/lobbyist for Free Market Foundation Liberty Institute Texas […]
Department of Redundancies Department
We’ll give this to him: he’s persistent. On the first day (today) that lawmakers can file bills for the 2013 session of the Texas Legislature, state Rep. Dan Flynn, R-Van, has proposed a bill — House Bill 49 — requiring public high school students to take a course on the U.S. Constitution. Seems reasonable? Of […]
