school board issues

http://www.wral.com/news/local/story/8348916/ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/us/28raleigh.html Long story short: Wake County Public Schools (That's where Raliegh is located) had a policy where a school cannot have more than 40% of their students receiving free and reduced lunch.* This lead...

"Who controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the past." It's hard to imagine a more fitting illustration of this quote from George Orwell's 1984 than the current effort by the Texas School Board to remove everything from text books that they see as favorable to...

The Texas Board of Education will consider a ruling on Islam's portrayal in history and social studies text books. Apparently the Board of Education in Texas is concerned that Islam is given more coverage than Christianity in history and social studies text books and that it is skewed to an...

Holy right wing paranoia, Batman! http://www.tfn.org/site/DocServer/McLeroy_Amendments_-_May.pdf?docID=1461 The justifications for the inclusion of studies of the eugenics movment are absolutely insane.

It's not just creationism that the Texas Board of Education wants in public text books. The fight last week was about history: Full: Texas Tribune

Don McLeroy had a column in Sunday's Bryan-College Station Eagle. It's an amazing collection of falsehoods, misinformation, and even a quote mine of Gould. You can download an mp3 lecture with McLeroy describing the "science" of intelligent design. The man clearly doesn't know what consensus...

This is an interesting turn of events for Don McLeroy, who is awaiting confirmation for another term on the Texas Board of Education: Full article: Austin America-Statesman More on Don McLeroy: Full: AMERICAN-STATESMAN

Teaching evolution now protected Maybe a bright note: although the vote on evolution was 8-7, "The final board vote to adopt the new standards [was] 13-2, with dissenting votes by Rene Nunez, D-El Paso, and Mary Helen Berlanga, D-Corpus Christi. Everyone across the nation who is in favor of...

The Discovery Institute just posted Stephen Meyer's recommendations to the Texas Education Board. Meyer, a creationist and co-founder of the institute was selected, along with two other DI connected evolution critics, by the board to make recommendations on science with other three scientists...

Tonight, a big election in Kansas for half their state-level school board members. Kansas Election Results N. Y. Times Article It's tough to see who are the ID crowd and who are not, not being from that area. Hell, even if I were I doubt I'd know. The "good guys", I'm guessing from the...

http://abcnews.go.com/sections/GMA/US/GMA031004Zero_tolerance_dresscode.html Ah, for the good old days, when we used to get hit with a board for such offenses. Yeah...that's the "simpler time" people wax nostalgic about.