Texas Education Agency lashes out at Fox Network for 'highly inaccurate' reports

[livingonearth]

Source: Dallas Morning News

By TERRENCE STUTZ/ The Dallas Morning News
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AUSTIN — The Texas Education Agency lashed out Wednesday at the Fox Network for "highly inaccurate" reports about the State Board of Education and its work on social studies curriculum standards.

The TEA, in a news release, cited a half dozen errors in a March 10 broadcast of Fox & Friends, such as Texas proposing only to teach U.S. history from 1877 to the present.

The TEA said U.S. history "has and always will" be taught from beginning to the present. Early history is covered in the eighth grade, and the period 1877 to the present typically is presented in the 11th grade.

It also chided Fox for reporting the board had removed George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, Christmas, Independence Day and Veterans Day from textbooks. Those haven’t been removed, and the board will not adopt history textbooks for a couple of years.


Read more: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/031110dnedufoxandfriends.195cce951.html

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More lies from Fox.

[Zoeisright]

1. When FUX tells the TRUTH it will be news.

Just like all repukes, all they do is lie. Because if they told the truth they would lose all their audience members. And their minds.

[curiousdemo]

10. Fox News get a joy out of

indoctrinating their (idiots) viewers with daily lies :spray:

[The Wielding Truth]

2. FOX needs to be kicked off the air! It's harmful to democracy!

[SpiralHawk]

3. D'oh

Anyone who hasn't yet figured out that FOX is a full time hate-and-fear-based right-wing propaganda pump, does not deserve to be an American citizen.

[4lbs]

4. How ironic that the acronym for the Texas Education Agency spells "tea".

;)

[TygrBright]

5. Pardon me while I mop up the mess. My head just exploded.

I thought the Texas Education Agency was pretty much on the same page with FOX when it comes to "the value of accuracy."

In textbooks, anyway.
confusedly,
Bright

[ananda]

6. LOLOL

The TEA has nothing to do with textbook selection or what is
or is not included in a text.

It's the State Board of Education that does that, and yes,
it's been THAT bad.

[Ken Burch]

7. Is the Board of Education elected, or appointed?

I'm just wondering if it can be swung or if it's just a tool of the governor(or "Bad Hair" Perry, as the late Molly Ivins so memorable dubbed him.)

[heli]

9. The board members are elected by voters:

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=4214

Composed of 15 members elected from roughly equally populous State Board of Education districts, the Board adopts rules and establishes policies that govern a wide range of educational programs and services provided by Texas public schools. The commissioner of education serves as chief executive officer of the Board and supervises the administration of Board rules through the Texas Education Agency. Together the Board, the commissioner, and the Agency facilitate the operation of a vast public school system consisting of 1,229 school districts and charter schools, more than 8,200 campuses, more than 630,000 educators and other employees, and more than 4.7 million schoolchildren. The Board establishes goals for the public school system and adopts and promotes four-year plans for meeting those goals...

[benld74]

8. The TEA was formed during the * years as Govnr,

He took what they did in TX and made it into No Child Left Behind for the Nation.
2 more failures for him

[sakabatou]

11. What do these people expect from Fox "News?" The truth?