TX Board of Educ. Parts Ways with Nat'l Assoc. Over 'Liberal' Leanings

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(AgapePress) - The Texas State Board of Education has severed ties with the National Association of State School Boards whose policies, says the Texas group, "continue to gravitate to liberal left."
Last week, the Texas State Board of Education voted 10-5 to remove itself from membership in the National Association of State School Boards, or NASBE. The motion was put forth by board member Terri Leo of Spring, Texas. She believes many of NASBE's policies are out of touch with mainstream America.
For example, says Leo, NASBE holds to the notion that the phrase "separation of church and state" accurately summarizes the Bill of Rights -- even though the phrase does not appear in any founding American document and was used by Thomas Jefferson 11 years after the Bill of Rights was passed. Leo says the Texas Board of Education voted not be associated with an organization that chooses to perpetuate a myth. She says she disagrees with NASBE's continued promotion of "misinformation" and its lack of concern with the actual language found in the Bill of Rights and other First Amendment rights.
The state board member asks: "Why should we entrust NASBE with developing and funding a national curriculum on civics education when the editors of NASBE publication think that 'separation of church and state' is a proper condensation of what the Bill of Rights says?"
In addition, Leo says she and her nine Republican colleagues oppose NASBE's effort to encourage state boards to implement a bullying policy that has a special victim category for homosexuals.

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