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Nov. 12, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
Closed Minds on State Board of Education?
"...Dear Chronicle: I'm a Texas certified biology teacher, and I testified against the addition..."
Aug. 11, 2003 Postmarks
Education Damaged by Ideology of Every Spectrum
"...and reports on the factual accuracy of curricula and textbooks across the country, including for this current SBOE adoption,..."
Aug. 5, 2014 Postmarks
Dying in Committee, Part 7
Don't ask why some bills pass and some don't. The answer will make your head spin.
"...textbook publishers. Representatives heard that the textbook trade in Texas, worth $1 billion per annum, is dominated by a..."
May 11, 2007 News Post by Richard Whittaker
State Board of Education Brings a New Anti-Sex Circus to Town
Anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ, and creationism advocates to help revise Texas public schools’ sex education
"...its health curriculum standards, which include sex education for Texas public schools. Though the Capitol remained calm this past..."
July 5, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma
Teaching Truthiness
Activists, lawmakers call on State Board of Education to reject racist Mexican-American textbook
"...activists – many of whom traveled from all over Texas – gathered outside the William B. Travis building on..."
Sept. 16, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma
Health Department Adds More Faulty Science to Pre-Abortion Booklet
Public comment period on revisions ends July 29
"...Leave it up to Texas officials to pump even more factual inaccuracies into already..."
July 19, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma
Smoot Steps Down
Texas Freedom Network director moves on after six
years of leadership
"...have probably heard of the group she leads, the Texas Freedom Network. It's a statewide organization with 19,000 members..."
Oct. 15, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May
All the Right Moves
Democrat Donna Howard faces self-proclaimed moderate Republican Cynthia Thornton in the general election for Austin's seat on the State Board of Education
"...the board's religious bloc, which has tried to censor textbooks, has pushed for more phonics instruction, and suspects school..."
Oct. 27, 2000 News Feature by Kevin Fullerton
Mixed Day for Science at the State Board of Education
Evolution wins a victory, but creationists still a foot in the door
"...of Education's final vote on science curriculum standards for Texas' public schoolchildren. However, the anti-religious-right and pro-science group Texas..."
March 27, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols
Andy's Tops & Bottoms
Sometimes you win, sometimes you nay
"...8) CALIFORNIA TEXTBOOKS INCLUDE CONTRIBUTIONS OF LGBTQ HISTORY-MAKERS so that's like, every..."
Jan. 5, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell
No Art Left Behind
New campaign fights for the arts in Texas schools
"...arts education being treated like a redheaded stepchild in Texas public schools? You might want to consider getting on..."
Nov. 26, 2004 Arts Feature by Robert Faires
Post-Pandemic, Can Schools Make Sex Education Work?
Tackling difficult subjects in Texas schools
"...receive and retain sex ed information is crucial in Texas, where teens continue to get pregnant at one of..."
Aug. 12, 2022 News Feature by Madi Donham
SBOE Passes Mexican-American Studies, but Whitewashes the Name
Right-wing board member objects to “hyphenated Americanism”
"...Four years and two failed textbooks later, the Texas State Board of Education finally agreed..."
April 13, 2018 News Post by Mary Tuma
Point Austin: Learning From Experience
The things they won't tell you in Texas schools
"...Molly Ivins often noted that persistent observers of Texas politics learn one invaluable lesson: Things can always get..."
Sept. 24, 2010 News Column by Michael King
Get in Line
In the new Texas arithmetic, nothing for nothing leaves nothing
"...previously hearing testimony on a pending group of health textbooks that were apparently all published by the stork, voted..."
July 23, 2004 News Column by Michael King
Naked City
Spending It All in One Place: The Unknown Texas Quarters
"...Last week, in a ceremony at the Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum – aka "The Mausoleum Obscured by..."
June 18, 2004 News Feature
Capitol Chronicle
Always count on the Texas Legislature to remember: The gold rules
"...Gov. Perry's chief of staff Mike Toomey recently told Texas Monthly. "It is not to do everything. The core..."
May 9, 2003 News Column by Michael King
The Religious Left
Texas Faith Network Unites Against the Right
"...struggling to be heard above the fray is the Texas Faith Network, made up of mainstream Christians and Jews..."
Dec. 27, 1996 News Feature by Amy Smith
How to Help the San Marcos Fire Victims
From donating to attending concerts, here's what you can do
"...yet to be identified. The fire also displaced many Texas State students who reside at the off-campus apartments. And,..."
July 25, 2018 Emergency Post by Eilish O'Sullivan
4 Little Girls/One Huge Legacy
The Texas Documentary Tour
"...be present in Austin to introduce it during its Texas Documentary Tour screening this Wednesday, this represented the bridging..."
April 3, 1998 Screens Feature by Jerry Johnson
The Luv Doc: Middle-Aged, Caucasian, and Cranky
Middle-aged white guys have it tough all over, not just in Texas
"...than middle-aged, Caucasian, and cranky. This isn’t just a Texas thing, either. I’ve seen it in other places too...."
Feb. 23, 2024 Column by The Luv Doc
Vaquero Taquero Opens Second Location in Downtown Austin
Saturday grand opening promises music and carne asada
"...weekends, co-owners/brothers Daniel and Miguel Cobos reference their South Texas roots with late-night offerings...."
Sept. 16, 2021 Food Post by Rachel Rascoe
Marathon House Debate Yields “Show Me Your Papers” Sanctuary Cities Bill
Amendment lets cops question detainees' immigration status
"...Following a 16-hour debate on Wednesday, the Texas House at around 3am approved an even harsher version..."
April 27, 2017 News Post by Mary Tuma
Headlines
"...migration and to labor against their will as slaves." Texas textbooks that hit classrooms this fall were crafted with..."
Oct. 9, 2015 News Feature
Point Austin: Low Expectations
Not much reason to believe that the Lege will do right by Texas students
"...than $660 million in emergency spending on things like textbooks, nursing homes, medical education, etc., that never quite got..."
April 14, 2006 News Column by Michael King
'Discovery Institue' Interested in Neither Discovery Nor Science
"...years, and testified against the dumbing-down of evolution in Texas textbooks at the Sept. 10 SBOE hearing. Ray Bohlin's..."
Sept. 29, 2003 Postmarks
Top 10 Education Stories
The year in local education
Jan. 2, 2015 News Feature by Richard Whittaker
This Time It’s Personal
Michael Barker endows Ed Lowry Student Film Program at AFS
"...students – you’re now discovering, that after buying your textbooks and shelling out for all your other necessities, there’s..."
Aug. 26, 2014 Screens Post by Marjorie Baumgarten
Making Everyone Happy
The state's textbook adoption process focuses more on pleasing everyone than on teaching children.
"...what we teach, who shall decide what is taught? Texas' recent hearings on the statewide adoption of social studies..."
