Texas “Republican-controlled State Board of Education voted along party lines 10-5” to approve textbooks that extol “Moses’ influence on American democracy”. Since Texas is the second-largest state market for textbooks, the same textbooks may be sold elsewhere around the USA.
More at Associated Press via Fox News
“Defenders of Connecticut teacher David Olio say one mistake shouldn’t have cost him his job. But why is the work of a towering figure of 20th-century American poetry out of bounds?”
More at The Daily Beast
Students, teachers, staff, and community supporters protest ACCJC meeting to consider the fate of City College of San Francisco (CCSF), in Burlingame, California, on June 5, 2013. U.S. Department of Education: time to decertify ACCJC! For more info, see www.saveccsf.org
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