The Texas Board of Education recently ruled that health books will present abstinence as the only form of birth control, and will define marriage as the union between a man and a woman. Since Texas has the second largest schoolbook printing industry in America, students in many other states will be learning those same lessons. Other fights in Georgia over whether evolution should only be presented as a theory are raising questions over whether local communities should be the ones to decide what goes inside their school textbooks — or whether national standards are needed.
Guests:
Charles Haynes, Senior scholar, First Amendment Center in Washington, DC
Dan Quinn, Communications Director for the Texas Freedom Network
Cathie Adams, President, Texas Eagle Forum