Ethics

Texans: More Rational Than Those They Elect

By Ed Brayton

The Texas Freedom Network released new polling data that shows that Texans are a good deal more reasonable on educational matters than those they elect to the state board of education. Like this:

72 percent of likely Texas voters want teachers and scholars, not politicians, to be responsible for writing curriculum requirements for public schools.

And that includes 63% of Republicans.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on July 19, 2010 (boomark / email).