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Category Archives for Barbara Cargill
Cargill Sort of Explains Herself
Barbara Cargill, R-The Woodlands, is having a tough go of it to begin her tenure as the Texas State Board of Education gavel-master. But lame “blame the media” and “you were never meant to hear that” excuses from her and her supporters (including former board chairman Don McLeroy) will do little to fix the damage [...]
The Coming Storm
Just a reminder about what new chairwoman Barbara Cargill — and her five “conservative Christian” allies on the State Board of Education — have in mind for the meeting this week: I am a little bit concerned in looking at some of these science online supplementary materials. I looked at one of the links and [...]
TFN Insider Will Live-Blog Science Debate
TFN Insider will be live-blogging (and live-tweeting via @TFN) from the State Board of Education’s Thursday public hearing and Friday final debate and vote on the adoption of new science instructional materials for Texas public schools. This week’s state board meeting comes two years after board members adopted curriculum standards that creationists hoped would force [...]
Also posted in creationism, evolution, intelligent design, Science adoption (2011), science and religion
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Cargill Comment Troubles SBOE Members
It looks like Texas State Board of Education Chairwoman Barbara Cargill, R-The Woodlands, has some serious fence-mending to do after implicitly questioning the faith of some of her board colleagues last week. After telling Texas Eagle Forum activists that she was one of only “six true conservative Christians on the board,” Cargill heard from a [...]
Barbara Cargill’s Anti-Science Agenda
New Texas State Board of Education Chairwoman Barbara Cargill, R-The Woodlands, made clear at her speech last week to Texas Eagle Forum activists that she is determined to politicize the board’s adoption of science instructional materials on July 20-22. She’ll be walking in the footsteps of former board chairman Don McLeroy and chairwoman Gail Lowe, [...]
Barbara Cargill: In Her Own Words
UPDATE: Apparently, someone was embarrassed that we were highlighting Barbara Cargill’s comments at a Texas Eagle Forum event last week. YouTube videos of those comments have now been made private. No matter. We already have those comments and the videos. We’ll have more from Cargill’s talk — this time her troubling comments about the coming [...]
Barbara Cargill: Some Things Never Change
UPDATE: Apparently, someone was embarrassed that we were highlighting Barbara Cargill’s comments at a Texas Eagle Forum event last week. YouTube videos of those comments have now been made private. No matter. We already have those comments and the videos. We’ll have more from Cargill’s talk — this time her troubling comments about the coming [...]
Also posted in Bob Craig, Don McLeroy, Marsha Farney, Pat Hardy, State Board of Education, Thomas Ratliff
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Barbara Cargill v. Science
Two weeks from today the Texas State Board of Education will meet to consider and take a pivotal vote on science instructional materials that could be in school classrooms as early as this fall. It will also be the first meeting with Barbara Cargill, R-The Woodlands, serving as board chair. Cargill, part of the SBOE’s [...]
Governor Names Cargill as SBOE Chair
Gov. Rick Perry announces his choice for SBOE chair — Barbara Cargill, R-The Woodlands. TFN just released the following statement: GOV. PERRY PUTS POLITICS AHEAD OF EDUCATION BY APPOINTING CARGILL AS SBOE CHAIR Governor’s Third Appointment of Board ‘Culture Warrior’ Ensures Continuing Political Battles FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE July 1, 2011 The Texas Freedom Network is [...]
Creationists Appointed to Science Review Panels
The Texas Education Agency just released the full list of members serving on the science review panels that will evaluate instructional materials submitted for approval by the State Board of Education (SBOE). As TFN predicted earlier this spring, the review panel for biology includes a number of individuals with a history of promoting intelligent design/creationism [...]
Also posted in creationism, evolution, Gail Lowe, intelligent design, Science adoption (2011), science and religion, State Board of Education, Terri Leo
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