After a marathon week of State Board of Education meetings — in which members derided everything from the revered church-state divide to transvestites — one might have thought their adoption of social studies standards couldn’t get any more bizarre this morning, when only a pro forma approval had been expected.

But then San Antonio Democrat Rick Agosto — who in the past has sometimes been the oddest of bedfellows with the board's socially conservative bloc, but turned on them during the history hearings — proposed deleting “the Beat Generation” from a list of cultural movements over which the board has bickered endlessly ...

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