The Texas Board of Education rejected a measure Wednesday that would require university experts to fact-check the state’s textbooks in public schools. The board rejected the measure 8-7, reaffirming the current fact-checking system that relies on citizen review panels made up of parents, teachers, and other members of the general public. The measure was likely proposed in response to a complaint last month, when a Houston mother found her child’s newly approved geography textbook referred to African slaves shipped to plantations in the United States between the 1500s and 1800s as “workers.” Recommended: 1912 eighth...
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