Texas Board Of Education Tried To Keep Word 'Slave' Out Of 'Slave Trade'
AUSTIN, Texas — A push by conservatives to put their ideological stamp on how a host of political events and figures will be taught to schoolchildren in Texas and beyond for the next decade was reaching its final showdown Friday.
The State Board of Education was set to vote on a social studies and history curriculum that will be used to teach some 4.8 million Texas students for the next 10 years. The partisan board has amended or watered down the teaching of the civil rights movement, slavery, America's relationship with the U.N. and hundreds of other items.
The standards also will be used by textbook publishers who often develop materials for other states based on those approved in Texas, although teachers in the Lone Star state have latitude in deciding which material to teach.
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