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Gov. Greg Abbott has stirred up controversy in Texas after appointing a homeschooling mom as chair of the State Board of Education. Donna Bahorich, who will succeed outgoing chair Barbara Cargill, is a Republican from Houston who homeschooled her three sons before sending them to religious private schools.

Also, from the article:

In recent years, the Board of Education has made a series of hotly debated conservative decisions. In 2010, religious conservatives on the board proposed changes to public school social studies standards, including renaming the US slave trade as the "Atlantic triangular trade." That one didn't pass, but one that did was giving Confederate President’s Jefferson Davis speeches equal importance with Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation. The board also drew criticism in 2014 when it approved new social studies textbooks that claimed that Moses inspired the American system of democracy and that country music is culturally relevant while hip-hop is not. Bahorich voted to approve these textbooks.

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