Rod Paige Address State Board of Education
Former U.S. Secretary of Education and Houston Superintendent Rod Paige this morning asked the State Board of Education to delay adopting its new textbook standards, saying they had “swung too far” to the ideological right and diminished the importance of civil rights and slavery.
Asked after his comments by board member Rene Nunez, D-El Paso, whether the board should delay a final vote expected on Friday, Paige said: “Absolutely.”
In a prepared remarks and answers to board questions, Paige said the board needs to throw aside its history of making standards an ideological and political battleground. He acknowledged that ...
Comments (4)
Evelyn White via Texas Tribune on Facebook
This current (and retiring) BOE will never let historical fact get in the way of going forward with their neo-con agenda.
Paige is right. History is what it is.
Dinah Anderson via Texas Tribune on Facebook
It seems to be so. How else can we learn from history?
Jesus B Ochoa via Texas Tribune on Facebook
A delicious take on the silly Dunbar by my pal Susan over at the beauty salon - Dunbar is a lame duck:
"Cynthia Dunbar does not have a high regard for her local schools. She has called them unconstitutional, tyrannical and tools of perversion. The conservative Texas lawyer has even likened sending children to her state... See More’s schools to “throwing them in to the enemy’s flames”. Her hostility runs so deep that she educated her own offspring at home and at private Christian establishments."
http://juanitajean.com/2010/05/17/cynthia-dunbar-d-i-v-o-r-c-e/#comments
Charles Bloom via Texas Tribune on Facebook
If the Tea Party supporters were SO intensely interested in reforming government, especially in Texas, they can start by trying to get RID of the SBOE. That board is completely the opposite of giving people local control.
But the Tea Party acts more and more like a tool of the GOP every damn day. But the naive among them don't know it.