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Texas Education Agency leader dodges questions about Bluebonnet curriculum mistakes

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Texas Education Agency leader dodges questions about Bluebonnet curriculum mistakes
FOX 4 Dallas

Amid questions about a controversial school curriculum, a Texas Education Agency leader declined to take questions surrounding the curriculum's lengthy list of errors and cost to fix them.Millions in taxpayer dollars to fund curriculum updatesMore than $8 million of taxpayer money will be spent to fix thousands of errors related to the Texas Education Agency’s controversial Bluebonnet curriculum, according to a contract provided to FOX 4 by the State Board of Education’s Vice Chair Pam Little. The $8 million expense consists of reprints, shipping and disposal of old text, according to the contract we’ve seen.Back in February, the state board of education approved fixing 4,200 errors found in the materials. The TEA says about half of the errors were in response to teacher feedback or grammatical errors. It’s not required to learn in all Texas school districts, but it’s incentivized as districts get $60 per student. Roughly a quarter of Texas school districts use at least portions of the

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