It’s bad enough that the State Board of Education has become a heavily politicized, dysfunctional embarrassment for Texas. Now religious-righters want control of the Texas Education Agency as well. State Rep. Wayne Christian, R-Center, wants Gov. Rick Perry to appoint SBOE member Charlie Garza, R-El Paso, as the state’s education commissioner and head of TEA. […]
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Texan Faces Anti-Muslim Civil Rights Charge
He’s too old to have been in school when the Texas State Board of Education passed its 2010 resolution attacking Islam and falsely claiming that history textbooks have an anti-Christian and pro-Muslim bias. But a 24-year-old Texas man has been charged with violating the civil rights of members of a Tennessee mosque. Talking Points Memo […]
GOP Nominee for TX State Board of Education Seat Another Culture Warrior?
Laurie Turner, Republican nominee for the District 2 seat on the State Board of Education, is sounding like yet another culture warrior who wants control over what millions of Texas kids learn in their public schools. In an opinion piece published Monday on the conservative website Texas Insider, Turner urges readers: “(R)emember there can only […]
Texas SBOE Says ‘No’ to Dolores Huerta, POTUS Says ‘Heck Yeah’
Thought we’d share a photo from our Facebook page. Once shunned by the Texas State Board of Education, Dolores Huerta last month became a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom. […]
Textbooks, Sex and How Texas Has Hijacked Public Policy in America
New York Times columnist Gail Collins has a new book coming, As Texas Goes…, which looks at how right-wing politics and other shenanigans in Texas have hijacked public policy across the country. You can read two extended excerpts from Collins book (due out this month): one on the textbook wars here and another on sex […]
