The Texas SBOE actually did it:
Texas Board Of Ed Approves Right-Wing History Textbook Standards (VIDEO)
Justin Elliott | May 21, 2010, 6:36PM
After months of debate and national controversy, the Texas State Board of Education Friday afternoon passed new high school textbook standards that recast U.S. history from the point of view of a movement conservative.
The AP reports on the 9-5 vote by the Republican-dominated board:
The partisan board has amended or watered down the teaching of the civil rights movement, slavery, America's relationship with the U.N. and hundreds of other items. ... They dictate how political events and figures will be taught to some 4.8 million schoolchildren in Texas and beyond for the next decade....
...Sigh. Read the sorry details at the linked site.
I read about this. It doesn't bode well.
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