Texas Governor Candidate Wants to "Undo" Bad Text Books

Courtesy of Talking Points Memo:

Texas' Democratic gubernatorial nominee Bill White has a plan for his state's new right-wing history textbook standards: fix 'em.

White said this weekend that if he wins in November, he'd select a new chairman for the state Board of Education to "undo some of the damage" done by the state's new history textbook standards.

"Obviously, I would pick a chair who would try to undo some of the damage that is being done as quickly as we can," he said. "We should have standards which reflect the views of professional educators and historians and respect the integrity of that process rather than injecting political ideology in the classroom -- regardless where that ideology came in the political spectrum."

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