When Texas teachers return to their public or open-enrollment charter school classrooms later this year, a new state law will restrict how they can discuss current events, encourage civic engagement and teach about America’s history of racism. Texas educators who spoke to The Texas Tribune overwhelmingly denounced the new law, born from House Bill 3979 […]Read More
Texas lawmakers have filed at least three bills targeting how racism, current events and the country’s founding principles are taught in K-12 schools — including a senate bill that would strip out upcoming requirements that students learn white supremacy is “morally wrong” and study particular writings by women and people of color. Senate Bill 3 […]Read More
Gov. Greg Abbott has announced the agenda for the special legislative session that begins Thursday, asking lawmakers to prioritize 11 issues that largely appeal to conservatives who wanted more out of the regular session. The announcement of the agenda came just over 24 hours before lawmakers are set to reconvene in Austin. The agenda includes […]Read More
Dear History Teachers, Sorry for the recent dust-up over Critical Race Theory. Seems that you are the new target of the red hats for the next few news cycles until they find a new fake crisis to get all irked up about. Truly I am sorry. You know and I know that they don’t even […]Read More
A conservative Austin think tank is touting a list of no-nos worthy of Dolores Umbridge, or, if you’re not a Harry Potter fan, of George Orwell. It’s out of the paranoid “if you see something, say something” genre of civics — a topical guide on how to think about a subject that might or, more […]Read More
Gov. Greg Abbott signed into law a bill last week that restricts how current events and America’s history of racism can be taught in Texas schools. It’s been commonly referred to as the “critical race theory” bill, though the term “critical race theory” never appears in it. But in signing the bill, Abbott said that […]Read More
What do these 100 things all have in common? Critical Race Theory Black Lives Matters ANTIFA Rock Music Sharia Law Violent Video Games Transgender People Gay Marriage 1619 Project Benghazi Covid Vaccines Nationalism Culturalism AIDS Welfare babies Pizza Gate United Nations Area 51 Barack Obama Ukraine Jews Death Panels Health Care for All Food Stamps […]Read More
In 2003, famous rich person Barbara Streisand went to court to try to stop an obscure photographer from completing an obscure project documenting the obscure topic of beach erosion in California. Because her house butted up to and overlooked one of the public beaches the photographer was photographing, the famously private Streisand thought that by […]Read More
The same folks that don’t want your kids to know that Texas was founded by a bunch of socially ostracized white guys that felt that they were above the laws of a sovereign country and just squatted their way to forming this here state, now don’t want your kids to be taught that just maybe, we […]Read More
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