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Leftist LGBT advocacy groups seek to hijack Texas 'sex-ed' to teach medically inaccurate, highly sexualized LGBT programming as early as kindergarten. For the first time since 1997, Texas education officials are reviewing — and potentially revising — health standards for all Texas public schools. While this should be an opportunity for strengthening the current factual, biological standards, leftist LGBT advocacy groups are calling this review process a “once-in-a-generation opportunity” to attack Texas’s abstinence-focused approach and teach medically inaccurate, highly sexualized LGBT programming as early as kindergarten.In Texas, the State Board of Education recently took public testimony on recommendations for new...

A national surge of measles cases has health officials concerned about possible widespread outbreaks of the highly infectious disease. As of May 3, there have been 764 cases of measles reported in the United States — the highest number of annual cases reported in 25 years. In Texas, there have been 15 cases of measles since the start of the year, according to the Texas Department of Health and Human Services. A new study released by the University of Texas at Austin Friday predicts 25 counties in the United States have a higher risk for a potential outbreak based on...

AUSTIN, Texas – Parents of school children across Texas now are gaining access to a previously secret public school curriculum, according to an announcement from a state lawmaker. The CSCOPE program, an online offering that until now has prohibited, under penalty of law, teachers from sharing the lessons with parents, stirred up controversy because of its various lessons – some that were taken offline after the questions arose. Among those issues were that the curriculum at one point taught the Boston Tea Party was an act of terrorism and Christians were cannibals, and forced students to draw a socialist flag...

Stan Hartzler has been a math teacher for a long time. The 40-year teacher has written textbooks, taught college math, and given hundreds of presentations on how to teach his subject. So when he was hired in August 2012 to launch a robust attack on Luling Independent School District's failing math scores, he brought a solid understanding of what his students needed. But Hartzler would soon become a casualty in a growing state controversy when, shortly after his hire, his superintendent adopted a new teaching system called CSCOPE. It organized each day's classroom topics — minute to minute — and...

The Obama administration made what was supposed to be a pre-emptive strike on Texas Governor Rick Perry, but which turned out to be, in baseball terms, a “swing … and a miss.” The administration unleashed Education Secretary Arne Duncan to attack Texas’s record on education, with Duncan saying he feels “very, very badly for the children.” When pressed to explain precisely what Texas has done wrong on education, Duncan came up a bit short on specifics. The Education Secretary’s arguments have generated a lot of useful discussion across the web, but I thought I would throw some rudimentary data analysis...

As an evangelical Christian, Rick Perry would be wise to at least read this detailed report from islamic writings on the prescribed pedophilia and sexual abuse of little girls and women of all ages before he promotes indoctrinating Texas children on a filtered islamic history! Does Christ following Rick Perry know what the founder of islam did when he was over 50 years old in his sexual relationship with 8/9 year old girls like Aisha? While the leftist leaning Houston chronicle might be comforted by Rick’s muslim ties, the majority of American voters would be horrified to know that trusted...

A stunning report today on the utter failure of so-called 'Zero Tolerance' programs in Texas public schools. 1200 WOAI news reports that after a decades long experiment in punishing students for even the smallest infraction, with policies which have allowed dopey school administrators to expel honor students for bringing aspirin or bottle openers to class, or for young deer hunters to have unloaded deer rifles in the trunk of their car in the school parking lot, the Council of State Government's Justice Center says the programs have given us a generation of expelled students, and schools which are not any...

(AgapePress) - The father of a student who died in the tragic Columbine, Colorado, school shootings of April 20, 1999, is weighing in on the Texas debate over high school biology textbooks. He believes children who are taught that they are made in the image of God will have greater respect for life. ... The father of Rachel Scott feels there is a directly relationship between what children are taught and how they see the world and choose to live in it. "If children are taught that they came from slime, that they evolved from a lower form of life,...

<p>DALLAS (AP) — Six years after dropping affirmative action in favor of a so-called "10 percent solution," Texas' public university system will work to restore race as a factor in admissions, with the blessing of the U.S. Supreme Court.</p> <p>Larry Faulkner, president of the University of Texas' 50,000-student flagship campus at Austin, said the changes could be in place this fall for applicants for the 2004-2005 school year. The other schools in the 170,000-student UT system would probably follow Austin's lead.</p>

Supporters of medical malpractice/lawsuit reform routinely cite the plight of high medical malpractice insurance for border doctors in making their case. No one disputes the problem. But addressing medical malpractice is not likely to fix a bigger problem facing border doctors: too many Medicaid and CHIP patients and not enough commercial or private pay patients. In El Paso, the patient mix runs heavy on uninsured and government-sponsored health insurance programs, such as Medicaid (for low income), CHIP (for children) and Medicare (seniors). According to a Community Scholars study using government data, the 2000 insurance mix for El Paso was 35...

Schools searched for debris Some campuses may be closed today to allow EPA removal 02/03/2003 By STEPHANIE SANDOVAL / The Dallas Morning News Officials at school districts across the eastern half of Texas fanned out across their campuses Sunday to search for shuttle debris before children returned to classes Monday. Gov. Rick Perry directed districts in 93 counties to inspect all grounds, including rooftops. The Environmental Protection Agency will remove debris from school sites and recommends keeping schools closed until debris is removed. In North Texas, searchers located a piece of debris Sunday at Maypearl High School, said Chief...