TEX. SBOE - COMPARISON -- SPURLOCK V. MILLER -- FROM CONSERVATIVE WATCH DOGS -- 7.23.12

Run-off Candidates for State Board of Education District 12

Early Voting Days:  July 23-27  Election Day:  July 31^st

  Gail Spurlockwww.gailspurlock.com

  IT expert and consultant to Fortune 100  

  companies

Tincy Millerwww.tincymiller.com

Former teacher and former SBOE member

Endorsements

 Kelly Shackelford

 Collin County Conservative Republicans

 Young Conservatives of Texas

 Pastor Stephen Broden

 Texans for Better Science Education

 Texas Conservative Digest

 Dr. Don McLeroy

Endorsements

Will Hartnett

Kenneth Sheets

Jan Woody

Bill Ames

Cindy Burkett

John Carona

Roger Staubach

Science

 Believes that evolution should be taught as a theory with students learning about the strengths and weaknesses of it.

Science

In 2008-2009 tried to block SBOE conservatives from including language in the Science curriculum standards that would require teachers to expose students to the weaknesses of evolution. (*See notes at bottom of page.)

English/Language Arts/Reading

Supports traditional, academic-based, objective learning (with objective testing and factual content)

Does not support subjective-based  learning (with    subjective testing  that emphasizes students' feelings and opinions instead of factual content)

Supports phonics, correct writing skills, expository and persuasive writing, research skills, the time-honored  pieces of literature – opposes whole language and invented spelling 

English/Language Arts

In 1997 voted for subjective-based standards that dumbed down academic content and pushed social justice into the classroom (including political correctness, multiculturalism, diversity, and environmental extremism).

Supports phonics  – opposed to whole language but refused to take a strong stance on the importance of teaching grammar/usage, expository/persuasive writing, research writing, and the great pieces of literature

Social Studies

 Teach factual history. 

Social Studies

Was one of five SBOE members who voted against Rives Resolution, which warns publishers that if their books contain pro-Islam/anti-Christian, anti-Judeo bias, the books will be rejected by the State Board of Education

http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=5173-- See Below

Political Ideology

Conservative Republican

On May 30, 2012, The Texas Tribune wrote,

[Tincy] Miller is an establishment Republican who sometimes sided with the social conservative voting faction, but she likely won't become the same kind of [conservative] ally Spurlock would.

Political Ideology

Moderate Republican – voted frequently with the Democrats on the SBOE 

On February 9, 2010, The Dallas Morning News stated,

"...Miller, a longtime board member and a Republican, regularly breaks from the social-conservative voting bloc on the board and offers a more moderate view.  For example, she was a key swing vote in skirmishes about science standards, rejecting proposals that would have required students to study the 'weaknesses' in the theory of evolution."

The Children’s Textbook Fund (PSF)

 Austin politicians should not raid it.

The Children’s Textbook Fund (PSF)

Austin politicians should not raid it.

Tincy Miller -Evolution supporter 

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/education/stories/03...

" Split vote upholds Texas education board ruling to ax evolution 'strengths and weaknesses' rule"

11:33 PM CDT on Thursday, March 26, 2009

By Terrence Stutz / The Dallas Morning News
tstutz@dallasnews.com

[This following article by Terrence Stutz was published on Thursday, the day before the final SBOE vote was taken.  Tincy Miller took a position against  the conservatives on the SBOE.  The conservative SBOE members wanted to make sure Texas public school students had the opportunity to investigate both the strengths and the weaknesses  of evolution rather than being taught to accept evolution as fact.  On Friday when the final vote on the Science curriculum standards (TEKS) was taken, the conservative SBOE members defeated Tincy Miller's  pro-evolution position.]

AUSTIN – In a decision watched by science educators across the nation, the State Board of Education on Thursday narrowly turned aside a last-ditch effort by social conservatives to require that "weaknesses" in the theory of evolution be taught in science classes in Texas….

….Geraldine Miller, R-Dallas, who opposed the weaknesses rule, argued that its supporters had "perverted" the debate by suggesting that the science standards would be "nothing" if they did not include the strengths-and-weaknesses requirement for evolution and other theories…..

….Joining [Mavis] Knight and Miller in opposing the weaknesses requirement was Republican Pat Hardy of Fort Worth…...

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Tincy  Miller Voted Against Adoption of the Rives Resolution

Texas Education Agency, SBOE Minutes - General Meeting (9/24/2010) - Page 5 for final vote of 7 to 5 (See preceding pp. 3-4 with Miller's votes against adoption throughout the session) --   http://www.tea.state.tx.us/index4.aspx?id=5173 

VOTE:A vote was taken on the motion to adopt the resolution on balanced treatment of religious groups in textbooks, as amended. The motion carried, with 7 members voting Aye and 5 members voting No, as follows:

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