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The Supreme Court of the United States has made several rulings regarding evolution in public education. In reaction to the Epperson case, creationists in Louisiana passed a law requiring that public schools should give "equal time" to "alternative theories" of origin. The Supreme Court ruled in 1987 in Edwards v.
Education in Texas. Texas has over 1,000 public school districts—all but one of the school districts in Texas are independent, separate from any form of municipal or county government. School districts may (and often do) cross city and county boundaries. Independent school districts have the power to tax their residents and to assert eminent ...
The Texas Education Agency ( TEA) is the branch of the government of Texas responsible for public education in Texas in the United States. [1] The agency is headquartered in the William B. Travis State Office Building in downtown Austin. [1] [2] Mike Morath, formerly a member of the Dallas Independent School District 's board of trustees, was ...
After the election of Joe Biden in 2020, the school board elections in Granbury, Texas took a partisan and culture-wars bent. Candidates like Courtney Gore campaigned openly as Christian ...
Education of climate change and evolution dominated the concerns some Texas State Board of Education members raised about proposed science textbooks for K-12 classrooms, which the board is ...
More: Texas State Board of Education questions climate change, evolution in science textbooks For Rottinghaus, the University of Houston professor, it's too early to tell what changes Kinsey will ...
e. Kitzmiller v. Dover Area School District, 400 F. Supp. 2d 707 (M.D. Pa. 2005) [ 1] was the first direct challenge brought in the United States federal courts testing a public school district policy that required the teaching of intelligent design (ID), ultimately found by the court to not be science. [ 2][ 3] In October 2004, the Dover Area ...
The Texas State Board of Education approved four new charter schools, including two in the Austin area. ... About 420,000 students, or 8% of Texas' 5.5 million public school students, attend ...