Changes to education? What is this?

I read today on Yahoo that in Texas, the State Board of Education passed new recommendations of changes that will be made to textbooks in Texas. Since Texas produces about 80% of this countries textbooks, this will affect a large amount of the country. Some of the proposed changes include greater emphasis on conservative influence, a reduce in focusing on Latino culture, changing words like capitalism to free market to make the US look more positive, remove Thomas Jefferson from the influential intellects (this one I don't understand at all), and to say that country music is an influential part of our society while hip hop music isn't. Ok, does anyone else see how messed up this is????

Here's the article, if you have time read it I suggest you do. I found it really interesting. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_ts1253