The $8.4 million tab, first reported by FOX4 Dallas-Fort Worth, comes at a time when state leaders criticize school districts for a funding crisis they view as caused, in part, by poor planning and reckless spending.
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Bluebonnet, an elementary and secondary school reading and math program that state leaders often tout as high-quality, comes with a $60 per-student incentive for districts that use it. As of last year, nearly 600 districts planned to use some of the materials.
The K-5 reading portion faces criticism for its use of Bible stories, while others express concerns about the lessons downplaying racism and slavery.
I’m not sure if it’s still the case, but IIRC, it used to be the case that Texas choices related to textbooks had an outsized influence on the rest of the country. Which would be fine if they were progressive, but because they tend to be regressive instead, it’s exactly what we don’t need…
(had to look it up, since I was curious if my memory was accurate…)
https://www.nybooks.com/articles/2012/06/21/how-texas-inflicts-bad-textbooks-on-us/
With these kinds of nefarious anti-intellectual schemes from xtian zealots going on for decades, it’s no wonder so many American adults still don’t understand biology 101 and reject evolution, LOL.