[mrscoach]

If a textbook doesn't make it to the approved list in Texas it can still be used, but the school will not get state funds to pay for it.

Texas is still big on local control of schools, within certain parameters. They are doing away with the broad standardized tests and implementing End Of Course exams, which allow a teacher to teach their style, but make sure they cover the material that will be tested over. There are good points and bad to this, but that's what we're getting now.

As for Texas not liking the Federal government, that isn't true. We have many politicians there, and a large number of the military are from Texas. The same military that protects the Federal government and all Americans. We may not like individual politicians, but who doesn't? There is a very small faction in Texas that has gotten press because they want Texas to become it's own country, but they are the crazy uncle in the corner with his underwear on over his pants that no one likes to acknowledge.