Is there a link to the details of the proposals and counter-proposals? I saw the story last night on Fox and it was very vague and difficult to understand. Are they providing directions for new textbooks or choosing between existing textbooks?
Here’s one report from yesterday:
Texas Conservatives Seek Deeper Stamp on Texts
By JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr.
Published: March 10, 2010
AUSTIN, Tex. — Even as a panel of educators laid out a vision Wednesday for national standards for public schools, the Texas school board was going in a different direction, holding hearings on changes to its social studies curriculum that would portray conservatives in a more positive light, emphasize the role of Christianity in American history and include Republican political philosophies in textbooks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/us/politics/11texas.html?src=me
And according to today’s FOX News reports, the conservatives are winning. Big!