Board to vote on curriculum changes some call ‘backward’
 | Members of the Texas State Board of Education in March gave preliminary approval to a social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on social studies textbooks. |
Caleb Bryant Miller / Zuma Press file |
AUSTIN, Texas - Is Texas on the verge of rewriting history, or just correcting it?
The answer depends on whom you listen to on the state’s Board of Education, which is poised to vote this week on new social-studies curriculum standards that could significantly shape what Texas children — and perhaps those outside the nation's second-largest state — are taught in the classroom.
Social conservatives on the 15-member Republican-dominated board are optimistic they will be able to push through curriculum changes that, according to board member and conservative Texas lawyer Cynthia Noland Dunbar, “promote patriotism.”
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