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Carpe Scrotum
If it isn't approved in Texass, it isn't populated to any other public K-12 schools in the nation. That's a little charter that needs to be revoked. Educational standards are one thing, ideological BS is something else.
"Charter?"
"Revolked?"
What on earth are you talking about?
There is no legal compulsion for public schools outside Texas to "populate" their K-12 schools with ANYTHING approved in Texas.
Not a legal compulsion, but compelled nevertheless:
Revisionaries - Mariah Blake
As the state goes through the once-in-a-decade process of rewriting the standards for its textbooks, the faction is using its clout to infuse them with ultraconservative ideals. Among other things, they aim to rehabilitate Joseph McCarthy, bring global-warming denial into science class, and downplay the contributions of the civil rights movement.
Battles over textbooks are nothing new, especially in Texas, where bitter skirmishes regularly erupt over everything from sex education to phonics and new math. But never before has the boards right wing wielded so much power over the writing of the states standards. And when it comes to textbooks, what happens in Texas rarely stays in Texas. The reasons for this are economic: Texas is the nations second-largest textbook market and one of the few biggies where the state picks what books schools can buy rather than leaving it up to the whims of local districts, which means publishers that get their books approved can count on millions of dollars in sales. As a result, the Lone Star State has outsized influence over the reading material used in classrooms nationwide, since publishers craft their standard textbooks based on the specs of the biggest buyers. As one senior industry executive told me, Publishers will do whatever it takes to get on the Texas list.
Until recently, Texass influence was balanced to some degree by the more-liberal pull of California, the nations largest textbook market. But its economy is in such shambles that California has put off buying new books until at least 2014. This means that McLeroy and his ultraconservative crew have unparalleled power to shape the textbooks that children around the country read for years to come.
The rest of the article is telling as well.