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Texas Board of Education May Remove Civil Rights Figures from textbooks
July 27, 2009 - 2:38pm — Anonymous Patron (not verified)
The Texas State Board of Education is listening to recommendations to remove or de-emphasize Cesar Chavez and Thurgood Marshall, among others, in school textbooks.
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only after trying and failing to savage science standards first
This comes on the heels of the hard (& mainly religious conservative) Right forces on the Texas SBOE trying to undermine the state's science curriculum standards and failing. It seems they are looking for "softer" targets...