By most accounts, the Democratic members of the Texas State Board of Education have not been able to accomplish much in today\u2019s session.\u00a0 Now, they will be facing an even more difficult challenge against the powerful conservative majority, as Mary Helen Berlanga (D-Corpus Christi), just stormed out of the meeting, saying she won\u2019t be returning to her seat until tomorrow. Immediately\u00a0after excusing herself for the evening, she told a gaggle of reporters in the hallway of the William B. Travis state office building that she felt her voice wasn\u2019t being heard, and the final straw came during an argument about whether or not schoolchildren can be taught that sometimes stereotyping isn\u2019t bad.\u00a0 One side argued that it is okay to stereotype people like firefighters and soldiers as heroes. \u00a0Berlanga argued that stereotyping needs to focus only be taught with regards to negative effects on racial and ethnic minorities. \u00a0Outside the hearing room, she also said she does not feel an obligation to her constituents to stay in the meeting, but that they should not be worried about her absence, because she feels she wasn\u2019t going to have the opportunity to have an impact for the rest of today, anyway.\u00a0 And so, the Texas Textbook Wars continue\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
By most accounts, the Democratic members of the Texas State Board of Education have not been able to accomplish much in today\u2019s session.\u00a0 Now, they will be facing an even more difficult challenge against the powerful conservative majority, as Mary Helen Berlanga (D-Corpus Christi), just stormed out of the meeting, saying she won\u2019t be returning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4652,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-418046","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418046","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4652"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=418046"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/418046\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=418046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=418046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=418046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}