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Originally Posted by kennyc
Well I think the TX and CA thing is by default, not official. It's that they buy more textbooks from the publishers than any of the other states so they get to "throw their weight around" wrt what they want, or don't want, in the books....
But your idea of selecting a set of states is a good one I think!
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Texas and California have state mandates, that is, only textbooks approved by state boards can be used in schools. Most other states leave the decision up to local school districts. Consequently, publishers cater to Texas and California because if they don't, they lose the opportunity to sell millions of books. But if they anger a local school district, they lose a sale of hundreds.
The way to combat Texas is to have more realistic states join forces as joint book buyers. The problem with choosing Connecticut and Iowa is that Connecticut closer to California and New York in outlook and Iowa generally is closer to Texas in outlook.