Must-know figures could change for Texas students
Does civil rights activist Cesar Chavez belong alongside Benjamin Franklin as an example of a model American citizen? Should Texas schoolchildren be required to identify Rush Limbaugh? How big a place does the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall — most famous for his victory in integrating the nation's schools — deserve in the history books?
The conservative-dominated Texas State Board of Education debates changes beginning ...
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After 16 * years of know nothing ultra conservatives in charge of state goverment, Texas risks becoming the new Mississippi(normally ranked 50 of 50) of education .