{"id":5976,"date":"2006-03-24T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-24T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/03\/24\/2006-03-24-california-board-of-education-proceeds-with-textbook-revisions\/"},"modified":"2006-03-24T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-24T12:00:00","slug":"2006-03-24-california-board-of-education-proceeds-with-textbook-revisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/03\/24\/2006-03-24-california-board-of-education-proceeds-with-textbook-revisions\/","title":{"rendered":"California Board of Education Proceeds With Textbook Revisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.insidebayarea.com\/argus\/localnews\/ci_3634817\">www.insidebayarea.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, March 20, 2006: HPI note: This article updates the situation with the California sixth grade social studies books. <\/p>\n<p>Members of the California Board of Education began meetings with publishers Thursday for final editing sessions of sixth-grade history textbooks. The Sacramento meeting comes despite lawsuits filed against the state by two Hindu groups, who challenge the way Hinduism is presented in the books and who say they take issue with the way the state went about its approval process.<\/p>\n<p>Liz Russell of Teachers Curriculum Institute publishers in Palo Alto said the current dispute is one of the most drawn-out approval processes she&#8217;s seen in her 25 years in textbook development. Russell said, &#8220;I appreciate the input from different (Hindu) groups; they&#8217;ve made us all much more sensitive and much more knowledgeable about Hinduism, and much smarter about the process.&#8221; Russell, who will meet with state officials today to discuss the changes, said she&#8217;s concerned that a protracted legal battle might prevent publishers from getting the textbooks distributed to schools in time for the beginning of the new school year. <\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, a Sacramento Superior Court judge declined to impose a temporary restraining order to keep the textbooks from going to press, and scheduled a hearing for April 21. Meanwhile, some publishers say they may go ahead with printing and binding the textbooks to ensure they meet the state&#8217;s deadline for finalized editions to be ready for consideration by school districts by the end of May.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.insidebayarea.com SACRAMENTO, CALIFORNIA, March 20, 2006: HPI note: This article updates the situation with the California sixth grade social studies,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5976","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5976"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5976\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5976"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5976"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5976"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}