Textbook flap staying in Texas
Fight over new social studies curriculum won’t affect the local school system, county superintendent says
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The flap over social studies curriculum textbooks that is roiling Texas parents and teachers is not likely to be felt in California, according to county Superintendent of Schools Julian Crocker.
“I don’t think it would have an impact on California,” Crocker told The Tribune. He said the California Board of Education adopts curriculum, and textbook publishers “come in and present their wares.”
The sorts of changes to curriculum that are making headway in Texas “would get ferreted out” in Sacramento, Crocker said.
Adding to the unlikelihood that such textbooks would be used in California is the fact that adoption of curricula is frozen in the state because of budget cuts.
The Texas Board of Education tentatively adopted guidelines March 12 that skew the curriculum to the right, according to published reports. Board President Don McElroy told The New York Times that he and his colleagues are merely trying to move the curriculum back to what they consider the center after a long leftward drift.
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