California's State Senate is doing what they can to try and limit the influence of the Texas Board of Education's recent controversial curriculum changes. SB 1451 would require California education officials to compare Texas-inspired textbooks with the state's own curriculum requirements.
"My bill begins the process of ensuring that California students will not end up being taught with Texas standards," State Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco), who authored and sponsored the legislation, said in an interview. Texas standards had better not "creep into our textbooks," he said.
…"we will make it very, very clear that we won't accept textbooks that minimize the contributions of minorities and propagate the close connection between church and state."
