California Lawmaker Seeks To Nullify Influence Of Texas Textbook Rules

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Jeremy Binckes
California Lawmaker Seeks To Nullify Influence Of Texas Textbook Rules
First Posted: 04-27-10 07:15 PM | Updated: 04-28-10 10:21 AM


Last month, the Texas Education Agency fundamentally changed how humanities subjects would be taught in schools.

Thomas Jefferson was removed from a discussion on the Founding Fathers, the term "capitalism" was stricken from economics lessons, the separation between church and state was glossed over, Joe McCarthy and Ronald Reagan replaced John F. Kennedy and the history of changing gender roles was tossed over concerns that it would lead students into "transsexualism."

A bill introduced recently in the California state legislature seeks to prevent these changes from seeping into textbooks in the Golden State. The bill, introduced by California State Sen. Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) is largely symbolic, however, since California will not be purchasing textbooks in the near future due to budget cuts.

"There needs to be a counter to this," said Lee's chief of staff Adam J. Keigwin, referring to the Texas revisions.

Yee introduced SB 1471, which requires the state's board of eduction to examine all future textbooks so that none of Texas' new regulations would enter California schools. The bill is currently making its way through the state legislature.

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[WeDidIt]

1. Big Market CAGE MATCH

Two huge text book states enter.

One set of standards leaves.

:evilgrin:

I'd take California on this one. Hell, I'd give two to one odds California wins this one. They're a much bigger market than Texas.

[LeftyMom]

2. RTFA.

California ISN'T BUYING BOOKS. AT ALL.

[provis99]

4. too bad New York is broke, too.

Then we could print textbooks wiping out Texas from the history of the United States.

[WeDidIt]

6. Not this year

They will, though.

Eventually, they will have to.

And catering to the CA market is at least three times more lucrative for text book publishers than catering to Texas. Texas will ge their bullshit, but CA will win in the long run.

[LeftyMom]

7. Not anytime soon.

Textbook adoption committees aren't even meeting until 2013, which means (assuming purchases aren't further delayed) that since that process takes a few years California schools won't be buying any significant number of books until 2016.

And with the budget the way it is, I wouldn't even count on that.

[callous taoboy]

3. Yes! Make the TEA a non-entity. Please put them out of business for good.

[Nikki Stone1]

5. Cross your fingers that California is successful here.

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