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How Creationists in Texas Are Putting Pressure on Schoolbook Publishers to Bring God into Biology
http://www.alternet.org/belief/exposed-how-creationists-texas-are-putting-pressure-schoolbook-publishers-bring-god-biology
It seems creationists in Texas have resorted to bullying and lying in an attempt to force evolution out of the classroom.
In November of 2013 the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) adopted new science standards for its textbooks that will bring evolution into the Texas public school classroom.
All eyes were on Texas as the SBOE voted on the new proposed changes to the science curriculum that would change textbooks around the US. Texas is the largest purchaser of public school textbooks and because publishers do not want to publish different textbooks around the US, they look towards Texas for what they will be including in the new books each year. As goes Texas, goes the nation.
This can be bad news if special interest groups such as the misleadingly named group, Educational Research Analysts (ERA), get their way. The ERA is a creationists lobbying group that stood firmly against the 2013 decision to introduce evolution into the Texas classrooms.
