We’ve previously reported on the Kochs’ attempts to indoctrinate America’s children with their anti-government, anti-science educational curriculum, and their latest attempt is just as outrageous.

The battle over public school textbooks in Texas has been in the news for months because of several controversial and factually inaccurate details included in the proposed textbooks. Early versions were riddled with errors, and some even went as far as lying to students about the science behind and causes of climate change. And where did this pseudo-science come from?

If you guessed the Koch brothers, you win!

The Koch-funded Heartland Institute, a self-described “nonprofit research organization,” is in reality a conservative advocacy group known to deny the human causes of climate change (just like the Koch brothers!).

In one passage submitted by Heartland, which was written by its non-scientist employees, students:

• are told that scientists “do not agree on what is causing the [climate] change;”
• are told to compare Heartland’s pseudo-science to the findings of the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change;
• and are asked to decide whether or not they think global warming is caused by human activity.

In truth, however, 97% of publishing climate scientists and 97% of climate papers “agree human activity is responsible.”  The debate is over, but the Kochs and the Heartland Institute are trying to create a new generation of climate change deniers.

Unfortunately, the Heartland Institute’s passages were just a few of the many factual inaccuracies included in the draft textbooks. On Friday, November 21, the Republican-controlled Texas State Board of Education voted 10-5 on party lines to approve 89 new social studies textbooks that include “‘hundreds of pages’ in last-minute changes.” These textbooks “will be used in Texas public schools for the next decade,”  so it makes sense that board members review the changes, right?

Apparently, not.

The board voted to approve the new textbooks without reviewing the changes, and when one board member proposed delaying the final vote until board members were able to review the changes, the proposal was voted down.

As a result, for the next decade, public school students across Texas will be using textbooks that could be riddled with factual inaccuracies and filled with ideological misinformation.

In an unusual turn of events for Real Koch Facts, however, there is a silver lining here: the Kochs’ “science” will allegedly not be included in the textbooks, sparing 5 million public school students across Texas a decade of misinformation and indoctrination – at least when it comes to climate change.

Despite this setback, expect the “Kochtopus” to keep growing its tentacles.