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Texas Board Restores Hillary Clinton Lesson
The Texas Board of Education has voted to restore Hillary Clinton to history curriculum standards — a surprising reversal that came after Republican members said they had heard from members of the public angry she’d been edited out.
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Texas Board of Education Restores Lesson on Helen Keller
The Texas Board of Education is discussing changes to the history curriculum.
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Texas OKs Mexican-American Studies Curriculum Under New Name
The Texas Board of Education will give a final vote on a new Mexican American course for high school students this Friday.
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Texas OKs Mexican-American Studies Curriculum Under New Name
The Texas Board of Education will give a final vote on a new Mexican American course for high school students this Friday.
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Ex-Texas Official Questions Teen's Harvard Acceptance
A former member of the Texas State Board of Education took a shot Friday at a biracial California teen who was accepted to Harvard University.
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Texas OKs Mexican-American Studies Curriculum Under New Name
The Texas Board of Education has given preliminary approval to creating statewide academic standards for a Mexican-American studies high school course – but only after changing the name to “ethnic studies.”
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Mexican-American Studies Course Could Come to High Schools in North Texas
The Texas Board of Education will give a final vote on a new Mexican American course for high school students this Friday.
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Texas Board Again Rejects Mexican-American Studies Textbook
The Texas Board of Education for the second year has rejected a Mexican-American studies textbook, with members arguing this time the book wasn’t expansive enough.
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Texas Bill Could Turn Back Page, Return Power to Texas Board of Education
The often-combative Texas Board of Education would expand its ability to reject textbooks it doesn’t like, rolling back limits that have been in place for more than two decades, under a proposal on the verge of clearing the state Legislature.
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Texas Board OKs Science Curriculum Compromise on Evolution
A compromise has been reached on the language used about evolution in Texas curriculum.
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Evolution, Creationism Debated in Austin
Friday, the Texas Board of Education will vote to decide what students will be taught, in terms of evolution and creationism.
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Texas Again Voting on Science Lessons Challenging Evolution
The Texas Board of Education is voting again this week on revised science curriculums requiring students to “evaluate scientific explanations” on the “complexity” of human cells and on the origin of DNA.
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Texas Mulls Changing Science Standards Questioning Evolution
The Texas Board of Education will decide whether to scrap a requirement that public schools teach high school students to scrutinize “all sides” of a scientific theory after hearing from academics who say that was meant to water down lessons on evolution.
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Texas Board Rejects Disputed Mexican-American Studies Book
The Texas Board of Education has unanimously rejected a Mexican-American studies textbook that experts say is rife with factual errors and anti-Hispanic bias.
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Official: Death of Student Who Fell from Bus Was Suicide
An official says the death of a South Texas middle school student who fell from the rear emergency door of a moving school bus was a suicide.
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Controversial Mexican-American Textbook Rejected
The Texas Board of Education has unanimously rejected a Mexican-American studies textbook that experts say is rife with factual errors and anti-Hispanic bias.
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Textbook Reignites Mexican-American Studies Flap in Texas
Activists and educators on Monday called a Mexican-American studies textbook proposed for use across Texas biased and poorly researched and argued that its contents are especially offensive in a state where a majority of public school students are Hispanic.
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Officials Propose Ban on Elementary School Suspensions
The Texas Board of Education will consider a proposal to ban suspensions and expulsion for Houston ISD students in the second grade and below.
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Amid Criticism, Texas Fails to OK New Textbooks
Amid charges of bias from the right and left, the Texas Board of Education has failed to grant preliminary approval for any of the around 100 new history and social studies textbooks up for use in classrooms statewide.
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New History Books Become Latest Texas School Fight
The Texas Board of Education is considering 104 proposed social studies, history, geography and government textbooks that publishers have submitted for approval and use in public schools statewide.