State lawmakers seek greater control over what universities can teach
A PBS News Hour report examines how state lawmakers, led by Texas Republicans, are asserting control over what public universities teach, with more than half of American students now enrolled in states with such limits. It centers on Texas A&M, where a complaint over a Plato reading led to professor Melissa McCoul's firing, two demotions, and the president stepping down, and on Senate Bill 37, which shifts curriculum authority to governor-appointed regents.
