This may help since you are going on FOX. This Statement by the Board answers all your questions.
Fox inaccurately reporting State Board of Education action
AUSTIN – The Fox Network in recent days has repeatedly broadcast highly inaccurate information about the State Board of Education’s efforts to adopt the new social studies curriculum standards.
Here are the facts. The direct quotes come from the March 10 broadcast of Fox & Friends.
Fox: “Texas board of education begins hearings today on proposed changes to textbooks…”
The truth: The State Board of Education today is expected to take a preliminary vote on updated social studies curriculum standards. The standards detail what teachers are to teach in each class. New social studies textbooks are not scheduled to be selected until 2011.
Link: http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=8203
Marty: 1) I’ve already been on; 2) I talked to two board members and a conservative activist about this before I went on and got the correct info; 3) I did pass this along to three separate FOX interviewers, but they didn’t seem to care about the distinctions; and 4) I looked at the curriculum and found nothing objectionable in it from EITHER Left or Right. I thought it was extremely balanced. Of course, any kook can “request” any change, but that doesn’t mean it will be given the time of day.