Received in an email. Here's a link to their press release page, but it's not posted there (yet).
http://www.tfn.org/pressroom/TFN Activists Made a Difference at the State Board of Education!
Calls and e-mails from TFN activists have helped derail – at least temporarily – efforts by far-right members of the State Board of Education to hijack a revision of the state’s language arts curriculum standards. State board members on Wednesday said they had heard from many parents, teachers and others who were angry that the board might throw out two years of work by educators and experts who have been revising the state’s current standards. The board’s chairman, Don McLeroy, had told reporters he would support alternative curriculum standards developed by a far-right activist/education gadfly. That was the same alternative document that the state board and then-Governor Bush’s education commissioner had rejected as too rigid and outdated more than a decade ago!
It quickly became clear early in the Wednesday meeting that a majority of board members had decided McLeroy and his far-right supporters were taking Texas schools down the wrong path. Those beliefs were confirmed as teacher after teacher denounced efforts to replace two years of hard work by curriculum revision teams – and waste the taxpayer dollars that paid for that work – with a document promoted by one activist with a political agenda.
A number of moderate and mainline conservative board members stood their ground and rejected efforts to adopt the alternative curriculum. But far-right activists still have a chance. The board agreed to appoint a subcommittee that will continue work on the official document supported by teachers. Two members of that subcommittee – including McLeroy – support the alternative document.
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