Texas Board of Education Actually Evolves
Good news out of Texas, for once…I suspect this will give Rick Perry something else to add to his invocation at “The Response”…
July 22, 2011
Today the State Board of Education voted to adopt the Texas education commissioner’s recommended list of science instructional materials. Special interest groups and activists off the state board failed in their efforts to force publishers to change their instructional materials to include arguments against evolutionary science. In addition, the board voted unanimously to reject the adoption of instructional materials from a New Mexico-based vendor that promoted ‘intelligent design’/creationism.
Full story here: tfninsider.org