Hispanics absent from history lessons - Texas (if true in Texas imagine the rest of the country)

State Board of Education member Mary Helen Berlanga on Monday called on the Texas Education Agency to include Hispanics, women and Native Americans in the state’s core public school curriculum known as the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills.

The TEKS is being revised for the first time since 1997, and this time Berlanga isn’t taking any chances. At a news conference Monday on the UTB-TSC campus, she said that what the TEA told her during the last revision won’t fly this time around.

When Berlanga pointed out in 1997 that significant contributions by Hispanics were being left out of the TEKS, the TEA told her that publishers of the textbooks the state would use knew about those contributions and would include them. “*

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