- Texas Ed Board Candidate Doubles Down on 'Pilgrims Were Communists' Claim
- More From Ed Board Candidate Spurlock: No Sex Ed, Kids 'Are Gonna Figure It Out on Their Own' Anyway
- Former Texas Ed Board Creationist Don McLeroy on Colbert Report Tonight
- Former Texas SBOE Member: Opposition to Teaching Creationism in Science Classrooms Is Like 'Pre-Holocaust Germany'
- Texas Ed Board Candidate Advocates Teaching Creationism in Science Classrooms
- Early Voting Begins in Texas: Vote in State Board of Education Races
Monthly Archives: January 2010
The Battle Joined
The Texas Freedom Network sent out the following press release after our press conference this morning at the Texas Education Agency: The state’s leading religious liberties group today joined with clergy and scholars in calling on the State Board of Education to approve new curriculum standards that don’t undermine religious freedom in Texas social studies [...]
Posted in Texas Freedom Network
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The Battle over History and Education
We have seen a series of stories in the last few days about the coming debate at the State Board of Education this week on proposed new social studies curriculum standards in Texas public schools. The Austin American-Statesman yesterday looked at efforts by conservative evangelicals to require that students learn that the United States was [...]
Posted in Bill Ames, church and state, social studies
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Far-Right Rhetoric on Social Studies Heats Up
With the Texas State Board of Education set to take up debate on proposed new social studies curriculum standards this week, the far right’s rhetoric is increasingly heated. We told you last week that Texas Tea Partiers are planning a “take back our schools!” rally outside a public hearing on the standards at the Texas Education Agency [...]
Posted in Peter Morrison, social studies
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‘Anti-Christian Bigotry’
So now FOX News anchor Brit Hume is saying that criticism of his call last Sunday for golfer Tiger Woods to dump Buddhism and convert to Christianity is just another form of “anti-Christian bigotry.” Hume told CNSNews.com yesterday: “It is certainly true in secular America today that the most controversial two words you can ever [...]
Posted in Don McLeroy, FOX News
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Tea Partiers: ‘Take Back Our Schools!’
Next week’s public hearing on social studies curriculum standards in Austin could resemble last summer’s angry protests over health insurance reform. That’s because the anti-government Tea Party brigades are now turning their attention to curriculum matters at the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE). The Austin Texas Tea Party Web site is screaming: “Take Back [...]
Posted in tea party
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SBOE Elections: Far Right Targets Bob Craig
With the filing period now closed, it’s clear that the religious right is targeting another traditional Republican for defeat on the Texas State Board of Education. District 15 board incumbent Bob Craig, R-Lubbock, will be challenged in a March GOP primary that could further strengthen the far right’s control of the board. Craig’s primary opponent [...]
Posted in elections, State Board of Education
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Talking Points
From today’s TFN News Clips: “It has always been a puzzling thing to me. The Bible even speaks of it, that, you know, you speak the name, ‘Jesus Christ,’ and I don’t – and I don’t mean to make a pun here, but all hell breaks loose. And – and it has always been thus. It [...]
Posted in Uncategorized
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Dodging a Bullet
Remember Allen Quist? He’s the fringe-right Minnesota politician who State Board of Education member Don McLeroy wanted to appoint to a panel of so-called “experts” helping revise social studies curriculum standards for Texas public schools. Like other absurdly unqualified ideologues who succeeded in getting appointments to the “expert” panel, Quist didn’t just lack academic credentials [...]
Posted in Allen Quist, Don McLeroy
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Talking Points
From today’s TFN News Clips: “Evolution is hooey.” – Texas State Board of Education member Don McLeroy, R-Bryan, eloquent as ever Stay informed with TFN News Clips, a daily digest of news about politics and the religious right. Subscribe here.
Posted in Don McLeroy
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