Texas to revise history textbooks: liberals out, Limbaugh and Gingrich
in.  <http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/21/texas-history-gingrich/>
Earlier this year, a panel of right-wing "experts"
produced a report urging the committee to remove
biographies of George Washington, Abraham Lincoln,
and Stephen F. Austin, César Chávez, and instead
add history about the "motivational role the Bible
and the Christian faith played in the settling of
the original colonies."


The Texas State Board of Education review committee is preparing to vote
on a draft of proposed standards for history textbooks. Noting that the
draft has "nothing about liberals
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6581189.html> ,"
the Houston Chronicle reported:

The first draft for proposed standards in United States History Studies
Since Reconstruction says students should be expected "to identify
significant conservative advocacy organizations and individuals, such as
Newt Gingrich, Phyllis Schlafly and the Moral Majority." [...]
Others have proposed adding talk show host Rush Limbaugh and the
National Rifle Association.

The 15-member committee, stacked with 10 Republicans
<http://www.newsday.com/panel-suggests-texas-students-study-conservative\
s-1.1384597> , is expected to vote along party lines.
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/08/21/texas-history-gingrich/


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