Why didn't 'ol Dan just introduce SOMETHING to completely disband CSCOPE? I haven't been able to get a direct answer to that.
He said that they didn’t ‘have the votes’.
“Why didn’t ‘ol Dan just introduce SOMETHING to completely disband CSCOPE? I haven’t been able to get a direct answer to that.”
I don’t have an inside line, but I suspect a few things. First, the shock effect - it’s really no different than finding out that your lovely 16 year old daughter already has 3 kids that are being raised by their fathers, and you thought she was still a virgin. That’s about how it seems to find out that 75% of school districts are circumventing the State Board of Education, who are (were) the deciders (pretty much) as to what gets taught - and you thought that was the case until only 4 months ago.
Next, the schools, most likely, already shredded their textbooks - so they have NOTHING to fall back on if CSCOPE is eliminated. While we can say “tough fecal matter”, it’s tougher for him to do so.
Finally, a LOT of Republicans are OWNED by Big Education (including our House Speaker), unfortunately, and would not support Dan, if he REALLY tried to put the hammer down.