Former Governor of Indiana Mitch Daniels sought to ban the works of Howard Zinn from Indiana classrooms, the Associated Press revealed this week.
A series of emails made public by the AP show exchanges between Daniels, now president of Purdue University, and top state education officials, and are from February and April of 2009.
In one email to Tony Bennett, then Superintendent of Public Instruction, Daniels writes:
In another, seeing that a professional development course for teachers included readings from Zinn, Daniels wrote, “This crap should not be accepted for any credit by the state.”
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