Talking Points

From today’s TFN News Clips:

“If what we were doing in the classrooms was that liberal, the state of Texas would be a liberal state because we’ve all been teaching for many, many years. I don’t see any evidence that Texas is a liberal state.”

— Deborah Pennington, social studies coordinator for the Conroe Independent School District and member of a State Board of Education-appointed U.S. history curriculum committee, responding to a far-right committee member’s charge that the proposed social studies curriculum standards for Texas are too liberal.

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