Texas education board's social studies vote may have wide impact
Texas' state education board, rocked by primary elections that may push the influential panel's far-right leanings toward the center, is set to take its first vote on a new social studies curriculum that could reverberate in classrooms nationwide.
Legislators shot down a proposal today that called for abolishing a regional education office drowning in debt and allegations of corruption and patronage. State Rep. Elaine Nekritz, D- Northbrook , sponsored a bill to eliminate the Suburban Cook County Regional Office of Education led by embattled schools chief Charles Flowers. The House bill provided that the county's three intermediate ...
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