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According to their website,[1] Texas Citizens for Science was founded in January 2003 to "promote the use of accurate and reliable science in Texas public education, government, and institutions" as a successor to the Texas Council for Science Education.[2]

Texas textbooks
  • July 14, 2004: submitted written testimony to the Texas State Board of Education on the Health Education Textbook Review and Analysis[1]
  • February 8, 2005: issued a response to Texans for Better Science Education Foundation's distribution of a creationist DVD entitled Where Does the Evidence Lead?[2]
  • March 24, 2006: issued brief to the Texas Attorney General Opinion Request that attempts to return textbook content control and censorship authority to the State Board of Education[3]
  • November 7, 2007: issues reviews of new documents promoting Texas Science Solutions and Standards[4]
  • November 15, 2007: offered testimony about the Proposed Process for Review and Revision of

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS)[5]

  • November 29, 2007: issued a report on the forced resignation of Christine Comer[http://www.texscience.org/reviews/tea-science-director-resigns.htm
  • biology professors' letter[6]
  • December 14, 2007: issued press release on the ICR's request[7]
  • December 17, 2007: issued a report on the ICR[8] and obtained and published the THECB's eval of ICR[9]
  • December 20, 2007: issued press release on the monetary reasons behind the ICRs accreditation plan[10]
  • January 15, 2008: published & comment on the ICR's disjunctive Duality letter[11]
  • January 20, 2008: responds to "Darwinism is racism" argument[12]
  • Filed amicus brief together with Colorado Citizens for Science et al. in Selman v. Cobb County[13]


  1. ^ Texas Citizens for Science. Retrieved on 2008-01-22.
  2. ^ Newsletter of the American Scientific Affiliation - Canadian Scientific & Christian Affiliation Vol 27. No. 3 (June/July 1985). Retrieved on 2008-01-22. “[T]he Texas Council for Science Education...was set up to oppose "scientific creationism" in Texas.”