Texas Democrats flip the State Board of Education

[RandySF]

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[muntrv]

1. You mean no more Bob Jones U textbooks? Yippeeee!

[FlightRN]

2. This is really great news

No more special textbooks marked “For Texas Only,” that leave out huge chunks of history. I was so bothered by that.

Congrats!

[mcar]

3. That is huge!

Great news for students everywhere.

[Bfd]

4. WOW!! This is an enormous win for our public school students.

About time that stronghold is busted thru.

Thanks!

[Qutzupalotl]

5. Holy shit that is huge!

I think we can thank Beto for the high turnout which made this possible.

[SweetieD]

6. This is a really big deal!!

[zipplewrath]

7. Influences much of the nation

Texas has an outsized influence on school text book design and content because if they can sell it in Texas, they can sell it alot of places, and do. Publishers may be taking notice of this shift.

[fishwax]

8. WHOA!

Great News!

[Permanut]

9. This has important national implications..

School books adopted as standard in Texas are often adopted in other states. The Board had been run by what are politely termed "religious conservatives", who in 2010, proposed changing references to the slave trade to "Atlantic triangular trade". This is a huge win.


[link:https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/answer-sheet/wp/2014/09/12/proposed-texas-textbooks-are-inaccurate-biased-and-politicized-new-report-finds/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.f3fbcbbcad8d|

[Aristus]

10. About goddamned time!

No more of this:

Evolution = Goddidit.
Slaves = Invited guest workers.
Alamo = Brave, selfless volunteer fighters for freedom.



Let's bring some education to the Lone Star State!

[meadowlark5]

11. That's great!

I really don't think people knew the power of state and local BOEs. The Kochs and the Heritage Foundation did. They barnstormed into my kids' school district in 2008 and destroyed our county public schools. Starved our public schools, charter schools popped up like 7-11s, bloated IT budgets for all of the micromanaging required by teachers, put in place a market based pay structure for teachers that ran them out of our district to neighboring districts.

We voted them all out in 2017 but the road is long and requires a lot to fix what they destroyed.

[lostnfound]

12. That's wonderful. Nt