Texas Textbook Battle Has National Impact
Battle lines are being drawn in Texas over what content should be put in school textbooks. And the decision of the Texas Board of Education could be felt in New Jersey, New York, and other states.
So who should get the final word on what students learn?
The issue now before the Texas Board of Education: proposed changes in textbooks for every school in the state.
Liberals, for example, want to eliminate Christmas, Independence Day and Gen. George Patton.
Conservatives pushing a religious line, such as teaching that George Washington was saved from death in battle by divine intervention or replacing Susan B. Anthony and Shirley Chisolm with Phyliss Schlafly.
As the Texas Board of Education prepares for hearings on what to put in the curriculum, fox news wanted to know who Americans think should have the final say on textbooks.
A Rasmussen Reports poll shows 34 percent say teachers, 24 percent say parents. Only 15 percent say local government, while 9 percent say the federal government, and another 9 percent say state government.
The Texas Board of Education is scheduled to make its decision in May. Whatever the vote, the textbook controversy could end up in court for years.
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