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EDUCATION – TEXAS COOKS THE BOOKS
In its efforts to advance a conservative agenda, the Texas State Board of Education is failing its students. Last week, the group voted on standards for new health textbooks, deciding “abstinence should be taught without any textbook discussion of contraception.” The newly approved textbooks don't mention condoms; instead, for example, “one offers strategies such as going out in groups, avoiding alcohol and drugs, and getting plenty of rest to avoid having 'to make a tough choice when you are tired.'” The Board of Education also decreed textbooks have to “be explicit about marriage as a union between a man and a woman.”