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babsbunny Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-10 12:21 PM
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California passes bill to counteract ‘disturbing’ Texas curriculum
http://rawstory.com/rs/2010/0530/california-disturbing-texas-curriculum/

By Sahil Kapur
Sunday, May 30th, 2010 -- 10:23 am

Measure ensures Texas standards don't 'creep into our textbooks,' senator tells Raw Story

texastextbooks California passes bill to counteract disturbing Texas curriculum

The California Senate on Friday approved legislation that sends a clear message to Texas and textbook publishers: don't mess with our kids' minds.

"My bill begins the process of ensuring that California students will not end up being taught with Texas standards," State Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco), who authored and sponsored the legislation, told Raw Story in an interview. Texas standards had better not "creep into our textbooks," he said.
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Upton Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-10 12:25 PM
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1. Good.
Edited on Sun May-30-10 12:37 PM by Upton
I hope they do something like this in Wa state too. Screw those fundies and their revisionist history.
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Corrupted Edge Donating Member (18 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-10 12:25 PM
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2. Jesus Christ is that good news! (and I'm an Atheist lol)
I hope my state passes something like that (Florida)... As a matter a fact, I think I'll send an email to my representative, should be easy enough with a google search right? I hope, no, I encourage others that haven't already done so to do the same thing, don't let the politically based texas education leave that states borders...
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Webster Green Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-10 12:26 PM
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3. CA has a better plan. Fire all the teachers.
Yeah, that's the ticket.
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jwirr Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-10 12:35 PM
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4. Hopefully other states will follow.
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Initech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-10 12:46 PM
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5. I like what Bill Maher said - "The last guy who knew Texas had textbooks was Lee Harvey Oswald!"
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D23MIURG23 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-10 10:49 PM
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6. Best news I've heard all month.
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LeftyMom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-10 11:05 PM
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7. California is not buying any textbooks anytime soon, so this is totally for show.
http://articles.latimes.com/2009/aug/08/local/me-textbooks8
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krabigirl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun May-30-10 11:15 PM
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8. Yay!
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JeffersonChick Donating Member (338 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-31-10 12:38 AM
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9. If I were filthy rich...
I'd send every Texas student a copy of Zinn's "A People's History of the United States". BTW, I just found out that a free copy of the text is available online!

http://www.historyisaweapon.com/zinnapeopleshistory.html
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OnionPatch Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon May-31-10 08:20 AM
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10. Another reason I'm happy to live in California
I was a little concerned about those Texas books since I have a grade-school age child.

I love California! :loveya:
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