#CSCOPE MUST DIE…..SAVETEXASEDUCATION FROM THE PROGRESSIVES That’s a tweet this morning from one of the political activists who has helped organize the right-wing witch hunt against the CSCOPE curriculum management system. She absurdly claims that CSCOPE’s lessons (written by current and retired Texas teachers) are anti-American and are being used to indoctrinate kids into communism […]
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Local Writer Pleads: Stop the Political War on CSCOPE, Deal with the Real Problems Facing Public Schools
A writer for the Wise County Messenger near Fort Worth makes some good points in a column on the CSCOPE “controversy” that tea party activists and other right-wing activists have been pushing across the state. It’s worth a read. After attending a community meeting where activists promised to provide the “truth” about CSCOPE, writer Brian […]
Rape and Pregnancy: Right-Wing Politicians Just. Don't. Get. It.
After last year’s embarrassments, how is it possible that right-wing politicians still say such profoundly ignorant things about rape? We sure don’t know. But Congressman Trent Franks, R-Ariz., did it again today. He was explaining why his proposed legislation banning abortion after 20 weeks of pregnancy shouldn’t have exceptions for rape and incest. From the […]
Dan Patrick Shades the Truth about His CSCOPE Witch Hunt
The right-wing witch hunt over the CSCOPE curriculum tool used in hundreds of Texas public and private schools has been filled with bizarre distortions from the beginning. But weeks after the state’s Education Service Centers bowed to political pressure and announced that they would stop writing lesson plans for school districts, state Sen. Dan Patrick […]
TFN and Bill Nye the Science Guy
If you were watching our Facebook page this week, you may have noticed a series of silhouetted pictures teasing a big announcement of this year’s celebrity guest for TFN’s EPIC Evening. Well, we’re very proud and honored to reveal that the person depicted by a silhouette in those images is Bill Nye the Science Guy. […]
