Bill White hangs the Texas Board of Education around Perry

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Democrat Bill White is making the Texas Board of Education -- which voted last week to drop Thomas Jefferson from the world history curriculum, placed Jefferson Davis' inaugural address alongside Abraham Lincoln's speeches and required that students be taught "the unintended consequences" of civil rights legislation -- an issue in the governor's race. White's urging Texans to send Rick Perry an email objecting to the board's conservative take on new curriculum standards for social studies. White says the board is making Texas an object of ridicule. The current and former board chairmen are evangelical Christians and Perry appointees. On his web site, White takes aim at the Republican governor:

Last week the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE), led by Rick Perry's appointee, voted to remove Thomas Jefferson from social studies textbook standards. That's right. Thomas Jefferson -- Founding Father, author of the Declaration of Independence, and a world-renowned scholar who advocated democratic, limited government -- was deleted from a list of historical figures who inspired political change.
Why?


http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2010/03/bill-white-hands-the-texas-boa.html

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1. +1

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2. Hopefully this will resonate in the fall with moderates and independents

Your kids in Texas are getting stupider thanks to the SBOE which has been totally in control of the crazy right wing. And Perry enabled it all!

See the prior thread on the whitewashing of Latino influences too:
Texas Board of Ed. Votes to Rewrite History, Whitewash Textbooks

Oh if only this one issue was enough to hang Perry with all Latinos.