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TexasTowelie

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3. It looks like Irving ISD dropped it.

Reply to mbperrin (Reply #1)

Tue May 21, 2013, 03:27 AM

May 2013

http://www.dallasnews.com/news/community-news/irving/headlines/20130520-new-irving-isd-board-drops-controversial-cscope-curriculum-program.ece

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In its first major vote and against staff’s advice, Irving’s newly seated school board pulled the district out of CSCOPE, a curriculum program under attack by conservative groups statewide.

About three-quarters of Texas school districts buy the suite of teacher guides and lesson plans instead of writing their own curriculum.

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They did it for the wrong reasons, but it's the right result. mbperrin May 2013 #1

Heck, I learned how to write lesson plans during the first semester of my deficiency program TexasTowelie May 2013 #2

It looks like Irving ISD dropped it. TexasTowelie May 2013 #3