AUSTIN, Texas (AP) - The State Board of Education is getting an earful from the public as the panel decides how history will be taught to millions of Texas children for the next decade.
The board began taking testimony Wednesday in Austin.
A tentative vote is expected later this week on new social studies curriculum standards that will serve as the framework in Texas classrooms for the next decade.
Early quibbles over the placement of civil rights leaders and the inclusion of Christmas seemed to have been smoothed over in the draft now being considered. Board Chairman Gail Lowe further eased oncerns, saying civil rights activist Cesar Chavez and Christmas will not be removed from the standards.
More than 130 people signed up to testify. A final vote is expected in March.
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