CA Lawmaker To TX: Your Textbooks Are Not Welcome Here | Talking Points Memo

California state Sen. Leland Yee (D) doesn’t want Texas teaching his state’s kids.

Yee has introduced a bill that would require California’s board of education to review in-production textbooks before they’re purchased and reject any that have been influenced by Texas’ new conservative standards.Texas’ new standards require students to learn about “the conservative resurgence of the 1980s and 1990s,” the Contract with America, NRA and Heritage Foundation — and replace Thomas Jefferson’s place in a world history standard with Thomas Aquinas and John Calvin, among other things.


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