While South Carolina has been at the epicenter of controversies over the Confederate flag this month, Texas has since found itself at the center of debate on how we teach children about the history of the Civil War, and its causes. It has put a renewed focus not just on the Texas curriculum standards themselves, but on the politicized process the state board of education uses to decide what is included, and what is not.
(Video: KRIV 26 News)
During the development of the standards KVIA-7 of El Paso did an analysis of the political battles that shape the curriculum. Finding along the way how the state board may also be undercutting Hispanic roles in the shaping of our state.
(Video: KVIA 7 News El Paso)
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