Remember the Texas Board of Education on election day!!

[txlibdem]

Corrupting the text books from which our children will learn is pure, unadulterated evil. Please remember these right wing idiots on the Board of Education and kick them out of office.

As for Texas, the past month of public commentary has revealed the community's outrage and concern. Despite their final ratification vote, there are early indications that progressives can take back the Texas School Board of Education from the hard right voting bloc. The former head of the textbook revision movement, Don McLeroy, lost his re-election bid to a more moderate Republican, and is no longer part of the school board. Fellow revisionist enthusiast, Cynthia Dunbar, is not seeking re-election. Absent any clear judicial recourse, Texan progressives will have to further capitalize on the backlash generated by the national spotlight and continue their efforts to overturn the instituted reforms.

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What recourse do progressives have to beat back the encroaching, fanatic know-nothingism of the fringe right? Unfortunately, judicial mechanisms may prove unhelpful. Most courts have historically recognized the right of local education boards to create a standard curriculum of its own accord. These local boards are also granted broad discretion in adopting uniform textbooks for their respective public schools. Anyone seeking to judicially contest Texas's revisions must make the case that the modifications infringe their constitutional rights. This isn't an easy task.

http://www.progressivefix.com/texas-textbook-massacre-can-the-courts-do-anything

I've made no secret that I feel strongly and fervently that America should have a national educational standard and a national educational curriculum. Of course, we need a single testing standard as well. States that have "dumbed down" their educational standards have put the children of their state at a serious disadvantage when they graduate high school and have to compete with students from all across the nation. Universities and colleges have been griping for decades that new students entering college are NOT READY, do not possess the required knowledge to be successful in a college setting. Standards need to be tougher, and manipulating educational content for political or religious reasons needs to be fought at any and all levels.

I believe every state should immediately enact policies that their schools will NOT purchase any textbook with these right wing changes. The companies that produce the textbooks are not stupid. They should be made to know that they will lose money if they go along with these Texas textbook changes.