California passes bill to counteract ‘disturbing’ Texas curriculum
Stumble This!Measure ensures Texas standards don't 'creep into our textbooks,' senator tells Raw Story
The California Senate on Friday approvedlegislation 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, said in an interview. Texas standards had better not "creep into our textbooks," he said.
The S.B. 1451 measure – approved on a bipartisan vote of 25-5 – requires California's Board of Education to examine and report any discrepancies between the new Texas standards and California's standards. "At that point," Yee told Raw Story, "we will make it very, very clear that we won't accept textbooks that minimize the contributions of minorities and propagate the close connection between church and state."
