Climate change in Texas science textbooks causes divisions on state's education board

[Igel]

1. I was sort of hoping that they'd say which courses/textbooks.

Just means I'll have to wait until next week to find out.

I was on the TEKS committee that revised the standards for a couple of high school courses in 2021 and the TEKS "guides" in the works for a couple of other courses and now district's told me that I will be on my districts curricular materials adoption committee. Who has time for this?

But one course dealt with both evolution and climate change, and while the evolution bit wasn't that hard to get consensus on the climate change text was a bit more difficult and carefully crafted and worded to ruffle no feathers very much but all feathers a little. (But what's actually taught in the classroom isn't closely monitored at that level of granularity by districts or school instructional officers except in maybe a few authoritarian districts.)