Texas’ Democratic gubernatorial nominee Bill White has a plan for his state’s new right-wing history textbook standards: fix ’em.
White said this weekend that if he wins in November, he’d select a new chairman for the state Board of Education to “undo some of the damage” done by the state’s new history textbook standards.
“Obviously, I would pick a chair who would try to undo some of the damage that is being done as quickly as we can,” he said. “We should have standards which reflect the views of professional educators and historians and respect the integrity of that process rather than injecting political ideology in the classroom — regardless where that ideology came in the political spectrum.”
The new standards recast U.S. history from the point of view of a movement conservative.
The TPM Poll Average in the Texas gubernatorial race shows Gov. Rick Perry (R) leading White 50.4% to 39.5%.
Check out TPMmuckraker’s full coverage of the Texas textbooks issue here.
