A tale of Texas books

The Worcester Telegram & Gazette takes a look The Texas Board of Education and the process they follow to buy books. Texas is among 20 states, including California and Florida, with textbook “adoption,” a process that can be “curious, complex and costly” for publishers who enter the fray, said Jay A. Diskey, executive director of the School Division of the Association of American Publishers. Thirty other states are “open territories” with no state review of textbooks.