Welcome to the intersection of faith and culture. It's the Wall Builders show.

Taking on the hot topics of the day from a biblical historical and

constitutional perspective. Thanks for joining us. I'm Rick Green here with

David and Tim Barton and today the hot topic is education guys of course we've

talked we talk a lot about education here well partly because that's what we do, but also because the

failure of our public schools and the Marxist takeover of our public schools.

That's why we see what we see in politics now and in these corporate boardrooms.

It's all downstream from educating multiple generations in this cultural Marxism.

But there's some positive things happening. A lot of people have stepped into the fight here and are working on their local school boards.

Today we're going to talk about how you work on essentially a state school board.

It's the state board of education in Texas.

Not every state's the same and it's different all across the country,

but in our state here in Texas, we have an opportunity to influence

what the curriculum is going to

look like and man we've got some good news today guys but it's kind of teetering

and it's going to require some action steps from our listeners in Texas today.

Yeah this goes to the role that Texas plays nationally in education because when you come to textbooks, Texas and

California have one-fourth of the nation's public school students.

So textbooks generally are written for those two states and sold to everybody else.

Now in Texas the way it works is a school district can have any curriculum they want, any

curriculum school board votes for, but unless it's on the state-approved list, the state is not going to pay for it.

So if there's a curriculum on the state-approved list, then the state's going to pay for

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