The Tea Party's Potential Influence on a Texas School District's Educational and Instructional Policies

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Short Description

The purpose of this presentation is to inform educators about the potential presence of politics in educational policy by providing a study's results that examined the Texas Tea Party influence in public education. The public educational process in Texas has always been a subject of manipulation by political movements. The perceived implications of the Tea Party movement on Texas school districts’ educational technology in the recent years will be presented to an audience.

Author

• Steven Robert Watkins, University of Phoenix