The Texas Board of Education rejected proposed science textbooks for eighth graders that focused too much on the climate crisis.
After nearly a week of debate, the Texas Board of Education rejected a number of proposed science textbooks for eighth graders on Friday. The Republican-majority board raised a range of concerns about seven of 12 proposed textbooks, most of which had to do with how the books presented the climate crisis.
Among the reasons the board rejected books: They had too much information about the climate crisis; they were published by companies with environmentally friendly policies; they portrayed fossil fuel use in an insufficiently positive light, potentially harming the state’s economy; and they included teachings about evolution but not creationism.
