Austin public radio station KUT is airing and streaming online a new documentary about the rightâs long-running culture war over public education in Texas. “The Long Game: Texasâ Ongoing Battle for the Direction of the Classroom,” by award-winning producer Trey Kay, looks at the ongoing political witch hunt over CSCOPE as well as the divisive […]
Weâre excited to tell you that the Texas Freedom Networkâs fight against textbook censorship and efforts to politicize public education will be part of a new documentary film premiering this weekend at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. “The Revisionaries” explores how far-right radicals on the State Board of Education in Texas […]
Stop us if youâve heard this one before. An extremist pastor walks into a library to destroy public property and when the stunt royally backfires on him, he recruits a member of his congregation to craft an unconstitutional city ordinance that essentially made his church members the morality police and the arbiters of what you […]
A few weeks ago we told you about the American Family Associationâs Bryan Fischerâs claim that the Bible is the only book banned in the countryâs public schools. Fischer has obviously not been to Texas where a course on the Bible is offered as an elective. Wait. He actually has been to Texas. Fischer was […]
The religious right doesnât just target science and social studies when it comes to politicizing public school classrooms. The movementâs pressure groups attack education on a broad front, pushing a divisive agenda throughout the public school curriculum — including even reading and English classes. Educational Research Analysts, the old right-wing warhorse of the textbooks “culture […]
We told you yesterday how the old warhorse of the right-wing censorship movement in Texas, Educational Research Analysts, works to intimidate publishers and promote a divisive ideological agenda in public school textbooks. As we reported, the groupâs July newsletter called for the Texas State Board of Education to reject textbooks that are allegedly anti-Christian and […]
More than a few people have wondered who really authored the inflammatory anti-Muslim resolution the Texas State Board of Education passed in September. Randy Rives, a failed state board candidate from Odessa, asked the board in July to pass the resolution. Rives has told reporters that he and his wife wrote the resolution and combed […]
The Fort Worth Star-Telegram has another story about the perils of educational publishing in Texas. It seems that a play by Peter Sagal, the host of NPRâs popular news quiz show Wait Wait… Donât Tell Me, was being considered for inclusion in an end-of-course exam under development for high school English students in Texas. Then, […]
