Religious Right
Your Texas State Board of Education: Don McLeroy
District 9 of the Texas State Board of Education is represented by Don McLeroy of Bryan, Texas. Apparently, McLeroy doesn’t like to let little things like facts get in his way. Recently, he was one of the board members advocating changing Texas English , Reading, and Writing standards. Texas Ed: Comments on Education from Texas: [...]
Your State Board of Education: Terri Leo
Terri Leo represents district 6 for the State Board of Education. She is also the board member who recently attempted to expand the board’s power to review textbooks to include content to protect us from the liberal views of those New York text book publishers. See, she’s only trying to protect the children of Texas [...]
Your Texas State Board of Education: Geraldine Miller
Geraldine Miller is the current chair of the Texas State Board of Education. Did you know that we actually elect our SBOE members? We do. And Miller is running for District 12 opposed only by a Libertarian “place-holder” candidate. So I guess it really doesn’t matter that Miller and her husband were involved in the [...]
Power for the sake of what?
MySA.com: Metro | State: AUSTIN — Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott on Monday refused to expand the State Board of Education’s authority over textbook content beyond what the Legislature authorized in a 1995 law.Social conservatives on the board had asked him to overrule a 10-year-old opinion interpreting that law. In his new ruling, Abbott did [...]
Homeschooing isn’t as safe as you think
To all those who are thinking about following the advice of those in the Southern Baptist Convention to pull your kids from the public school to homeschool, beware, I’m a homeschooler. I teach my son evolution as a scientific theory and creationism as a belief. I don’t believe teachers, or coaches, or principals should be [...]