State School Board member Don McLeroy appears to have eagerly invited attention from a Washington Monthly reporter, only to take a bit of a beating in the resulting article. The magazine's latest issue devotes more than 3,700 words of at-times pointed ridicule over the way he and (perhaps to a lesser extent) other social conservatives on the board have sought to inject conservative dogma into Texas textbooks and tests. 

In a familiar magazine style, writer Mariah Blake opens with a scene of herself sitting down with the animated McLeroy, who blasts her with proclamations from the rightmost flank ...

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