What to teach

Texas' State School Board was the subject of big controversy when it was taken over by conservatives who then insisted on aligning public school textbook content with their political ideology rather than scientific and historical truth.  And, because Texas is the largest customer for textbook publishers, and because publishers don't want to have to print different versions for different states, what Texas wants tends to be what everybody else gets too.

Now look at the big difference in another conservative state, Kentucky -- home of Mitch McConnell, Rand Paul, and the Creation Museum, where displays show humans co-existing with dinosaurs.

Against strong objection from conservatives, the Kentucky Board of Education has just approved a science curriculum that includes evolution and climate science.  It still has to be approved by the legislative committees on education, but the board chairman was optimistic that science will prevail.

It's good that a red state -- in addition to true-blue states like Massachusetts and California -- has put scientific truth and the importance of good education above political ideology.

Ralph