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The Texas Textbook Wars Head to Tribeca!


By DemAdmin - Posted on 18 April 2012

"We’re excited to tell you that the Texas Freedom Network’s fight against textbook censorship and efforts to politicize public education will be part of a new documentary film premiering this weekend at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. “The Revisionaries” explores how far-right radicals on the State Board of Education in Texas worked from 2008 to 2010 to undermine the teaching of evolution and rewrite history in a campaign to indoctrinate public school students with their ideological agenda."

"Because of the size of the Texas market, the state has a significant influence on what publishers put in the textbooks they sell across the country. Now new audiences will see how creationists and other right-wing pressure groups here are undermining public education beyond Texas as well."

Read the entire article at TFNInsider.org.

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