may disappear from the state board of education in texas. the board of education says it realizes people will disagree on what should remain. state requires too much material to jam into one year. officials say teachers can still discuss the excised figures, but it is not mandatory. the decision on who to remove and include is based on volunteer work groups. final vote is set for november. a suspect charged with arson in connection with the huge fire at new york city parking garage. police say 23-year-old evon stevens was seen in the area where the fire broke out in brooklyn. the seven ala-alarm blaze damag 300 cars. firefighters worked for hours to put out the inferno. julie chen is stepping down as the host of the talk.
the state board of education chooses these volunteer work groups that are made up of teachers and parents and really whoever they want to nominate. the volunteer people set up a rubric grading everything texas school children are required to learn and they gave them a number from 1 to 20 and if you didn t score well on the rubric, they recommended you be cut from the curriculum and both helen keller and hillary clinton did not score well. so they were recommended for deletion, and the board approved that on friday. so one of the things that i this has been controversial with the texas school board and textbooks for a long time. a lot of states don t develop their own textbooks. what texas publishes ends up influencing kids way beyond texas, because some states don t have the wherewithal to decide what the curriculum is going to be recreated. this is much more influential than just texas. it is. and, actually, there s an