AUSTIN, Texas -- Texas public schools had little say in 1995 when the state demanded that publishers make sweeping changes to health textbooks to de-emphasize contraception, or six years later when it raised objections that a textbook wasn't skeptical enough about global warming. They had little recourse in subsequent years, when state objections were raised about religious matters in social studies textbooks and other science books' explanation of evolution. The State Board of Education is again sparking fierce debate as it begins a public...
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