To: The United States House of Representatives and The United States Senate
Equal Education For Every Child
Stop the grand bargain between the top schoolbook publishers and the Texas State Board of Education. Make it law that every schoolbook aim to teach our children and grandchildren they are all Americans first and not all Texans.
Why is this important?
Let us cut the umbilical cord from the Texas State Board of Education to every School Book Publisher in the US. Because Texas is the major purchaser, by far, of schoolbooks used by children in every state, every schoolbook publisher in the United States must toe the Texas School Board of Education line. No State Board should be the national umpire for the contents of the schoolbooks every American schoolchild is taught by. Unless you live in Texas, you have no say on what schoolbooks contains. Our top priority in education must be one that starts our children equally on their path to education based on access to the broad aims of the Nation rather than narrowly to those of any one State.