After hours of testimony, the state Board of Education Thursday rejected two history textbooks from Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, but approved 10 others based on new history social sciences guidelines.
Following nearly eight hours of emotional pleas from Hindus and Indian American, as well as advocates for the LGBTQ community requesting fair historical representations in K-8 textbooks, the state Board of Education endorsed the recommendations of an advisory panel.
When Board President Mike Kirst declared the public hearing closed after about 500 people spoke, he said: “That was the longest in the history of the state Board of Education.”
[For more on this story by THERESA HARRINGTON, go to https://edsource.org/2017/afte...ves-10-others/590118]
Photo: Hundreds of people lined up outside the State Board of Education meeting on Thursday to speak about new history social science textbooks.
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