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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