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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Gino Spocchia

Texas considers calling slavery ‘involuntary relocation’ in public school textbooks

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School textbooks in Texas could soon refer to slavery as “involuntary relocation” under proposals put before the state’s education board.

A panel of nine educators submitted the divisive idea to the Texas State Board of Education ahead of a once-a-decade process to update the curriculum for all of the roughly 8,900 public school students in the state, which is due to take place this summer.

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