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Texas Textbooks Getting Conservative Flavor

Board revising standards over objection of minorities

By John Johnson,  Newser Staff

Posted Mar 13, 2010 12:16 PM CST

(Newser) – The Texas Board of Education has decreed that future curriculum standards will have a more conservative bent. The board's 10 right-leaning members say they're simply "adding balance" to left-leaning academia. The five minority members say they're whitewashing history. Among the changes, expected to formalized...   Read full story »

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