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Ten Down ... 90% to Go

AISD votes to move the Liberal Arts Academy from Johnston to LBJ, a move that magnet parents support but many others question.

"...there. I mean, some neighborhood classes don't even have textbooks. Can you imagine that happening in a magnet class?..."

Dec. 7, 2001 News Feature by Michael May

Wallet and Spirit

Sickbed Fortune

"...The Board meets several times a year to adopt textbooks, oversee funds, and otherwise determine educational policy for the..."

Jan. 29, 1999 News Feature by Debbie Nathan

Big Fish,Small Bowl

On View: Texas Commissioner of Education Mike Moses

"...made national headlines during its fractious adoption of health textbooks in 1993-94; a long, protracted fracas ensued over a..."

Feb. 2, 1996 News Feature by Roseana Auten

Headlines / Quote of the Week

"...Textbooks Rejected Over Climate Content: The Republican-controlled Texas State Board..."

Nov. 24, 2023 News Feature

The Talented Mr. Ripley riff adds little to the conversation

"...classic tropes of the niche aesthetic: extravagant architecture, dusty textbooks, and musky queer-coded young men...."

Nov. 17, 2023 Movie Review by Jenny Nulf

APD Victims Services Unit Calls on Local Therapists for Help

Unit offers training in EMDR therapy in exchange for pro bono counseling for trauma survivors

"...crime. The incentive? Free professional training – cost of textbooks not included...."

April 14, 2023 News Feature by Dex Wesley Parra

Opinion: On Anniversary of Atlanta Spa Shootings, Asian Americans Still Erased in Texas

With the State Board of Education updating our history curriculum, we have an opportunity now to highlight Asian American narratives for future generations of Texas students

"...Asian Americans are literally reduced to nothing in our textbooks. Texas must create a more historically inclusive approach, so..."

March 18, 2022 Column by Ashley Cheng

The Get Together

Austin party movie is one perfect night in the velvet rut

"...be wrong), The Get Together might not make the textbooks of indie cinema. Still, grab an Eastcider or a..."

May 14, 2021 Movie Review by Selome Hailu

State Board of Education Brings a New Anti-Sex Circus to Town

Anti-choice, anti-LGBTQ, and creationism advocates to help revise Texas public schools’ sex education

"...The state's current health education standards and textbooks include no information about sexual orientation and gender identity,..."

July 5, 2019 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Teaching Truthiness

Activists, lawmakers call on State Board of Education to reject racist Mexican-American textbook

"...This is far from the first time Texas textbooks have been criticized for marginalizing minorities and distorting historical..."

Sept. 16, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Texas State Board of Education

"...voting for a plan to have university professors fact-check textbooks in 2015, going against most of his Republican colleagues...."

Aug. 26, 2016 News Feature by Mary Tuma

Health Department Adds More Faulty Science to Pre-Abortion Booklet

Public comment period on revisions ends July 29

"...(Need we remind you of the state’s social studies textbooks?)..."

July 19, 2016 News Post by Mary Tuma

No Need for Snark

"...APD shooting of David Lepine [“News Roundup: Tragedies and Textbooks,” News, July 13] begins with the unnecessary "Another weekend,..."

July 18, 2015 Postmarks

“Nature doesn’t need people, People need nature”

"...for engaged youth, Bullard mentioned the current hullabaloo over textbooks. “Texas is trying to tinker with textbooks and make..."

Oct. 9, 2014 News Post by Jessi Cape

"...Texas Social Studies textbooks, backed by the largely right-wing State Board of Education,..."

Sept. 19, 2014 News Feature

One Man's SXSW ... Times 4

Our intrepid correspondent wanders through all four Festivals – and lives to write about it

"...public schools are microregulated, down to the options for textbooks, and so the trick for businesses is to follow..."

March 29, 2013 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Top 10 Education Stories

Edukayshun 'r' us

"...fringe right, but this year it refused to approve textbooks from Holt McDougal until the books treated evolution as..."

Jan. 6, 2012 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Andy's Tops & Bottoms

Sometimes you win, sometimes you nay

"...8) CALIFORNIA TEXTBOOKS INCLUDE CONTRIBUTIONS OF LGBTQ HISTORY-MAKERS so that's like, every..."

Jan. 5, 2012 Qmmunity Post by Andy Campbell

Time to Change American History Education for the Better

"...offers good write-ups on the three concepts.) Our history textbooks present history in a relentless monotonic American ethos drumbeat..."

March 29, 2010 Postmarks

AISD Working Out Technology Costs and Kinks

Austin ISD goes on computer-buying spree

"...a "$300 netbook that we can put all the textbooks on, plus give students fundamentals like word processors and..."

July 10, 2009 News Feature by Richard Whittaker

Mixed Day for Science at the State Board of Education

Evolution wins a victory, but creationists still a foot in the door

"...publishers into putting phony arguments attacking established science into textbooks...."

March 27, 2009 News Post by Lee Nichols

Doggett Refutes McCaul Op-Ed

Doggett calls the bill 'imperfect but responsible'; McCaul calls it a 'Trojan horse'

"...next two years, get all of their tuition and textbooks paid for to go to ACC. ... If your..."

March 13, 2009 News Feature by Lee Nichols

Luv Doc Recommends: Texas Freedom Network's 13th Annual Celebration

La Zona Rosa, Saturday, October 4, 2008

"...which sadly seems to be when most Christian fundamentalist textbooks were approved. Fundamentalist dogma is pretty much the same..."

Oct. 3, 2008 Column by The Luv Doc

This remarkable animated film tells a contemporary story about an Iranian girl’s coming-of-age while navigating the usual pitfalls of adolescence and the Islamic revolution of the Eighties.

"...forced under a veil, the official history in her textbooks is rewritten, and an independent-minded uncle who had been..."

Feb. 1, 2008 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

"...advocated eliminating outright the theory of evolution from biology textbooks and, as a retired teacher, keeps an open mind..."

April 7, 2006 News Feature

"...advocated eliminating outright the theory of evolution from biology textbooks and, as a retired teacher, keeps an open mind..."

March 31, 2006 News Feature

Odds and ends – mostly odds – from under the pink granite dome

"...grant program for local school districts to buy both textbooks and technology, is in direct conflict with the parameters..."

Aug. 12, 2005 News Column

Perry Settles for a 'Half-Loaf'

And he's 'stunned' that you would question his special sessions

"...that would, at the very least, provide funding for textbooks and pay raises for teachers. As for property tax..."

Aug. 5, 2005 News Column by Amy Smith

Our readers talk back.

"...New Textbooks Damaging..."

Dec. 10, 2004 Column

Smoot Steps Down

Texas Freedom Network director moves on after six years of leadership

"...Cain-raising when conservatives want to put God in biology textbooks or private-school vouchers into the public school system. Now,..."

Oct. 15, 2004 News Feature by Rachel Proctor May

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