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After Hours of Testimony, Board Delays First Vote On Social Studies Textbooks

By Emily Mathis
Nov 19, 2014

On Tuesday, the State Board of Education met for the final hearing on the adoption of new social studies textbooks. The board intended to cast the first vote on the textbooks, with the final vote scheduled for Friday. But after hours of impassioned testimony from both the right and the...
Highland Park HS Keeps Genesis on Required Reading List Despite Smut

By Emily Mathis
Nov 18, 2014

Last week, Highland Park ISD released its updated high school reading list. The list provided titles required for in-class reading, optional outside reading and the passive aggressive list of "approved" but not taught in the classroom reading. Students will have to get parental permission to read six books on the...
Unaccompanied Immigrant Kids Are Still Coming into Texas

By Emily Mathis
Nov 17, 2014

It's been a few months since Clay Jenkins ceremoniously announced that, because rates of unaccompanied immigrant children coming into Texas had ebbed, there was no longer a need for a local shelter. Has the influx remained low? See also: Dallas County Will Not Shelter Thousands of Central American Kids After...
Dallas City Council Doesn't Think Construction Workers Deserve Rest or Water Breaks

By Emily Mathis
Nov 13, 2014

At Wednesday's City Council meeting, a group of Dallas day laborers and representatives from the Workers Defense Project were out in full force to advocate for local workers' rights. Their appearance yesterday was the latest in a push over the last several months to require Dallas employers to allow water...
After First Round of Corrections, New Texas Textbooks Still Deny Climate Change

By Emily Mathis
Nov 13, 2014

For the first time since 2002, the Texas State Board of Education is considering the adoption of new social studies textbooks. The books must incorporate 2010 state social studies standards, which have been criticized as right-wing biased and blatantly conservative. See also: Proposed Texas Social Studies Textbooks Get Climate Change...

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