{"id":570359,"date":"2010-05-19T12:50:02","date_gmt":"2010-05-19T16:50:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com\/?p=19491"},"modified":"2010-05-19T12:50:02","modified_gmt":"2010-05-19T16:50:02","slug":"texas-textbook-board-meeting-begins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/570359","title":{"rendered":"Texas Textbook Board Meeting Begins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Update: 11am<\/p>\n<p>Out of the 208 people who signed up to speak at the Texas Textbook board meeting,\u00a0 73 have registered as for the Board of Education\u2019s changes to the curriculum; 56 against. The remaining 79 declined to state their opinion in advance.<\/p>\n<p>Two speakers have taken to the podium. Rev. Stephen Broaden, an African American minister, steadfastly expressed his support for the Board\u2019s changes to the curriculum, saying that Judeo-Christian principles should be focused on when students study the nation\u2019s Founding Fathers.<\/p>\n<p>Following Rev. Broaden, Former Superintendent of Education in Houston and former U.S. Secretary of Education, Rod Paige, an African American man, expressed his concerns of political agenda having too great an influence on what students will learn.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Update: 11am Out of the 208 people who signed up to speak at the Texas Textbook board meeting,\u00a0 73 have registered as for the Board of Education\u2019s changes to the curriculum; 56 against. The remaining 79 declined to state their opinion in advance. Two speakers have taken to the podium. Rev. Stephen Broaden, an African [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5027,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-570359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570359","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\/5027"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=570359"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/570359\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=570359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=570359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=570359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}