TPMMuckraker Don McLeroy: May 2010
Texas Textbook Hearings
What A Long, Strange Trip It's Been: TX Textbooks Rules Set For Final Vote
Justin Elliott | May 19, 2010, 12:51PM
Newt Gingrich and Phyllis Schlafly
This week should determine Texas' nationally influential U.S. history textbook standards, as the conservative-dominated State Board of Education prepares to vote on the new standards Friday amid intense interest from activists on both sides.
These are the standards that publishers seeking to sell textbooks in Texas will have to use as a guide. TPMmuckraker started covering the story back in September, and it has since attracted national attention for what critics see as the board's outlandish right-wing recasting of U.S. history. Given the makeup of the board, look for a big win for conservatives Friday.
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Textbooks
TX Textbooks Proposal: Students Must Discuss Gutting Social Security, Explain How U.N. Undermines U.S.
Justin Elliott | May 17, 2010, 9:00AM
Don McLeroy
With the long-running Texas history textbooks standards fight scheduled to end with a final vote by the State Board of Education Friday, arch-conservative board member Don McLeroy is proposing a new set of changes that read like a tea party manifesto.
The new amendment (.pdf), which is expected to get a vote on Thursday, would require high school history students to "discuss alternatives regarding long term entitlements such as Social Security and Medicare, given the decreasing worker to retiree ratio" and also "evaluate efforts by global organizations to undermine U. S. sovereignty."
PERMALINK | COMMENTS (118) | RECOMMEND RECOMMEND (7)Topics: Don McLeroy, Medicare, Social Security, Texas, Texas Textbook Hearings, Textbooks, United Nations
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