For the past 30 years, the Texas Board of Education has been a growing headache for science education advocates, blocking the teaching of evolution within the state and using its power over the textbook market to discourage textbooks from covering the topic. Its a simple change, but it takes away a powerful tool in the fight against evolution education. Because of the size of the Texas public school system, which includes more than five million students, textbook publishers are often reluctant to publish a book that might raise objections there.
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