Civil Rights Organizations are seeking a federal review of Texas Public School Education

Finally, folks are looking into the Texas Board of Education's foolishness. Earlier this year, Texas BoED decided to rewrite history in many textbooks. For example, forcing Christianity over other religions and leaving out important Hispanic leaders from Texas history.

Now, Two civil rights groups are seeking a federal review of public school education in Texas and accusing them of violating federal civil rights laws.

The request to the U.S. Department of Education made by the Texas NAACP and Texas League of United Latin American Citizens on Monday contended that the curriculum changes passed in May "were made with the intention to discriminate" and would have a "stigmatizing impact" on African-American and Latino students.

"The State of Texas is failing to provide many of its minority students with equal educational opportunities," documents sent to the federal department said.

The request, signed by Gary Bledsoe, president of the state NAACP, and Joey D. Cardenas Jr., state director of Texas LULAC, asked that implementation of the curriculum changes and new standardized tests be stopped for being racially or ethnically offensive or historically inaccurate.

Besides the curriculum complaint, they accused the state, the Texas Education Agency and the Texas Board of Education of "miseducation" of minority students, disparate discipline for minority students, using accountability standards to impose sanctions on schools with high numbers of minority students and rules leading to underrepresentation of minorities in gifted and talented school programs.

At this time that Board has no true comment.

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