AUSTIN Texas Following the State Board of Educations vote to remove the strengths and weaknesses" wording from the TEKS requirement for science teaching Jonathan Saenz director of legislative affairs at Free Market Foundation released the following statement:
Its a shame that censorship is now the law in science classrooms. Some board members chose to ignore the overwhelming majority of ten thousand emails and countless Texas science professors and teachers that support the strengths and weaknesses language.
A 20-year freedom standard has been struck down in our science classrooms and bucked the national trend banning our teachers and students from having critical science discussions and handicapping them for the 21st century."
Mr. Saenz presented testimony before the State Board of Education in three separate hearings on this issue.
He was joined by Free Market Director of Litigation Hiram Sasser Texas-based science experts professors and science teachers and a Ph.D. graduate who witnessed science censorship first hand at the graduate school level all of whom asked for the 20-year requirement of teaching strengths and weaknesses in Texas schools to remain in place.
AUSTIN Texas Following the State Board of Educations vote to remove the strengths and weaknesses" wording from the TEKS requirement for science teaching Jonathan Saenz director of legislative affairs at Free Market Foundation released the following statement:
Its a shame that censorship is now the law in science classrooms. Some board members chose to ignore the overwhelming majority of ten thousand emails and countless Texas science professors and teachers that support the strengths and weaknesses language.
A 20-year freedom standard has been struck down in our science classrooms and bucked the national trend banning our teachers and students from having critical science discussions and handicapping them for the 21st century."
Mr. Saenz presented testimony before the State Board of Education in three separate hearings on this issue.
He was joined by Free Market Director of Litigation Hiram Sasser Texas-based science experts professors and science teachers and a Ph.D. graduate who witnessed science censorship first hand at the graduate school level all of whom asked for the 20-year requirement of teaching strengths and weaknesses in Texas schools to remain in place.
