If you were disappointed that extremist Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) candidate Mary Lou Bruner had taken her Facebook profile private, therefore depriving you of a window into what she truly thinks, today’s your lucky day. […]
Textbook Censorship
Texas Ed Board Chair Ignores a Key Problem in Discussion about Textbooks
Donna Bahorich, chair of the State Board of Education, is missing a key problem in defending how new history textbooks in Texas public schools cover the experience of African Americans after the Civil War. By focusing just on the textbooks, she ignores how politicized curriculum standards adopted by the state board distort the teaching of history in Texas public schools. […]
Bruner vs. Breitbart
Controversial Texas State Board of Education candidate Mary Lou Bruner is upset at the media. But not just any media. While it’s not unusual for politicians and activists to blame the so-called “left-wing liberal media” for just about everything, Bruner is, surprisingly, upset at the uber-conservative news website Breitbart. The tiff between Bruner and Breitbart […]
The SBOE Is Taking Up Science Again This Year
Buckle up, science-lovers and other rational Texans. Science is coming back to the Texas State Board of Education this year. The SBOE has announced plans to “streamline” the state’s controversial science standards. And that means evolution will be back in the crosshairs. We’ll have much more information about this process soon, but for now, two […]
Yes, We Have More of Mary Lou Bruner’s Facebook Posts
After we first published Mary Lou Bruner’s social media posts, the Republican Texas State Board of Education candidate out of District 9 defended her comments in a couple of ways. She began by saying, on Facebook, that she was taken out of context. What possible context there could be for insisting that the president of […]
