BTW, while I abhor curricula that are pushed by religious fundamentalists (regardless of flavor), I also abhor political indoctrination in curricula of any sort.
As I said above, all history is biased. All.
My brother in law gave me a history on the golden age of piracy, for example. I didn't finish the first chapter as the author's modern political bias was evident in the first few pages. The same is true of any history you read, albeit usually it is more subtle.
If the state pays for texts, then the taxpayers—through their elected representatives—have a right to vet them politically. The argument WRT Texas is that TX exercises much power because unlike other States, they buy all public school texts at the State level. So TX decides on certain content, and that's what gets published because TX is a big sale. My argument to that is, tough. If NY doesn't like it, they can buy for the whole State and counterbalance TX. The market is open, I don't see other states compelled.
Course my kids go to private school anyway, and if they want history, my library is pretty decent (even if it is heavily weighted towards military history).
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