Proposed Texas GOP platform calls for the Bible in schools, electoral changes that would lock Democrats out of statewide office ( www.texastribune.org )
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The proposed curriculum overhaul was released a week after the Texas GOP proposed requiring the Bible to be taught in public schools. School districts that opt to use them will get more funding....
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Weeks after winning a school board seat in her deeply red Texas county, Courtney Gore immersed herself in the district’s curriculum, spending her nights and weekends poring over hundreds of pages of lesson plans that she had fanned out on the coffee table in her living room and even across her bed. She was searching for...
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I'm sure this will gain him a lot of help in the next election....
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But after taking office and examining hundreds of pages of curriculum, Gore was shocked by what she found — and didn’t find....
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No matter how bad you think this could be, it's worse.
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Didn't we used to look down on countries that jailed immigrants just for crossing the border? Not exactly where I want my tax dollars going.
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