“Textbook debate in Texas over sex education”
Read a July 21, 2004, MSNBC.com article on the sex education textbook debate in Texas.
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“Texas picks textbooks that stress abstinence”
Read a Nov. 6, 2004, Dallas Morning News story posted by the Seattle Times about the outcome of the Texas vote.
“Democrats in 2 Southern States Push Bills on Bible Study”
Read a Jan. 27, 2006, New York Times story about when Democrats in Alabama and Georgia introduced legislation to teach the Bible in public schools.
“Teaching the Bible in Georgia’s Public Schools”
Read a March 29, 2006, New York Times story about Georgia becoming the first state to approve the Bible as a textbook.
“When Would Jesus Bolt?”
Read an April 2006 Washington Monthly profile of Randy Brinson, one of the primary advocates of “The Bible and Its Influence.”
“Education”
The Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life offers resources on issues involving religion and public schools.
“Student religious expression in public schools: United States Department of Education guidelines”
The U.S. Department of Education has guidelines, issued in 1998, for teaching religion in public schools.
Marshall Fitz
Marshall Fitz is the director of immigration policy for the Center for American Progress (CAP), which is a progressive independent nonpartisan educational institute. Contact Fitz through the CAP communications director Crystal Patterson or through the email form on his CAP page.
Jeffrey S. Passel
Jeffrey S. Passel is a senior demographer for the Pew Hispanic Center, which has conducted research on Latino immigration patterns and Hispanic attitudes toward immigration policy.