Board member Ken Mercer, R-San Antonio, asked the board to delay the new AP history curriculum and test for at least a year while state officials determine whether they violate a 2013 law that prohibits the teaching of Common Core materials in Texas schools.
Date: Jul 19, 2014
Category: U.S.
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Texas education board gives preliminary approval to science materials
Sensing that repeated attacks on religion were to come, board member Ken Mercer, R-San Antonio, offered anyone in the audience $500 if they could find any reference in the state science standards to Jesus or God.