This week’s meeting has drawn special scrutiny due the fact that some of the English lessons in the new educational materials use the Bible as one of the source texts. For example, the kindergarten curriculum discusses the Golden Rule and the story of the Good Samaritan. view article

Frenship ISD voters OK'd three propositions totaling $199.5 million, according to final but unofficial results from Election Day. view article

Gov. Greg Abbott has blasted the federal government’s efforts to undermine Texas’ border security efforts.  view article

There is a growing and disturbing trend of anti-intellectual elitism in American culture. It's the dismissal of science, the arts, and humanities and their replacement by entertainment, self-righteousness, ignorance, and deliberate gullibility. Susan Jacoby, author of The Age of American Unreason, says in an article in the Washington Post, "Dumbness, to paraphrase the late senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan, has been steadily defined downward for several decades, by a combination of heretofore irresistible forces. These include the triumph of video culture over print culture; a disjunction between Americans' rising level of formal education and their shaky grasp of basic geography, science and history; and the fusion of anti-rationalism with anti-intellectualism."  view article

A Mississippi school district has been ordered to desegregate its schools after what the Justice Department called a five-decade-long legal battle. The Cleveland School District, about two hours northwest of Jackson, was told that it must consolidate its schools in order to provide real desegregation for students in the city of about 12,000. view article