Texans Want to Reform State Board of Education
Texans overwhelmingly reject the way the State Board of Education sets requirements for textbooks and curriculum, which ignited a nationwide controversy earlier this year, according to a statewide survey the Texas Freedom Network released today.
The data from TFN — an activist group that promotes religious freedom and has vocally opposed the SBOE's process of adopting textbook and curriculum standards — also suggests that Texans may not be as divided on some hot-button “culture war” issues.
Among the findings:
- 72 percent of likely Texas voters (including 84 percent of Democrats, 63 percent of Republicans, and 76 percent of independents) want teachers ...
Comments (5)
kirk holden
Note to Debbie Ratcliffe - the vast majority of those polled want to abolish the SBOE. Reminding us that politicians control a process that we do not want politicians to control is pointless.
Bryan
This story is factually inadequate in two regards. First, it never identifies the Texas Freedom Network for what it is, which is a partisan (on the left, against the elected SBOE) in the recent controversies. As such, its survey should be taken with TFN's activities and agenda in mind, but readers here aren't told of TFN's positions and therefore don't have the information they need to evaluate the source, and therefore validitity, of the survey. And second, the link to the TFN "report" actually goes to a gateway page that TFN is using to gather emails, not directly to the report itself. This link puts the Trib in the position of helping TFN build its email list.
Hopefully that wasn't the intent.
Brandi Grissom
Bryan,
Good points, and both are now addressed in the blog post. Thanks.
Brandi
Bryan
Thank y'all for addressing my concerns, Brandi! Considering that it's a TFN survey at issue, mentioning it in the declarative headline might we worth a look but I won't quibble.
Dave Mundy
Using a "survey" by the Texas Freedom (sic) Network as a news "source?"
Really laughable. I'm suuuuuuuuure it's completely unbiased information.