Jason Gaston

Texas wanted its own state-developed curriculum. Texas got its own state-developed curriculum. And now taxpayers are footing a bill of up to $8.4 million to correct, reprint, ship, and replace Bluebonnet Learning materials after thousands of changes were approved.

And somehow, Houston apparently tried to migrate toward Florida.

In this video, we take a look at the controversy surrounding Texas’ Bluebonnet Learning curriculum: the roughly 4,200 approved corrections and revisions, documented errors and quality-control problems, the millions being spent to fix them, and the additional controversy surrounding the curriculum’s heavy use of biblical and Christian material in public-school lessons.

To be fair, the Texas Education Agency says those 4,200 changes were not all errors—some were revisions and improvements based on feedback. But when taxpayers are spending millions correcting state-produced instructional materials, asking how those problems made it through quality control in the first place seems pretty reasonable.

We’ll also talk about the financial incentives Texas gives districts to adopt Bluebonnet, why a Colorado district abandoned the curriculum only days after adopting it, and the wonderfully ironic question at the center of all this:

📚 What happened to accountability?
💰 Why are taxpayers paying to correct these materials?
✝️ When does teaching about religion become something more?
🗺️ And most importantly… can somebody please put Houston back where it belongs?

Whatever your politics or religion, educational materials purchased with public money should be accurate, academically rigorous, and ready for students before taxpayers have to pay for them twice.

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