Will the Texas legislature correct this mess?

Stephanie Simon at The Wall Street Journal reports that some Texas legislators are considering revamping the Board of Education. Recently, creationists led by chairman Don McElroy, have taken the Board on a wild ride of ham-handed anti-evolutionism, anti-big bang education, and anti-climate change education ride. The anti-evolutionism was the standard Disco 'Tute "strengths and weaknesses" language.

Some legislators are tired of it:

The most far-reaching proposals would strip the Texas board of its authority to set curricula and approve textbooks. Depending on the bill, that power would be transferred to the state education agency, a legislative board or the commissioner of education. Other bills would transform the board to an appointed rather than elected body, require Webcasting of meetings, and take away the board's control of a vast pot of school funding. Gov. Rick Perry, a Republican, hasn't taken a position on specific bills, a spokeswoman said.

"At this point, a lot of us are questioning...whether the state Board of Education serves a purpose anymore," said state Rep. Donna Howard, a Democrat.

I don't know that the Texas legislature is going to be able to quash this any better than all of the protesters could. There have been 54 science organizations, independent scientists, the Texas Freedom Network, the Texas Science Network, concerned Texans, the National Center for Science Education, and civil liberties groups who all came to the Board's meetings to argue against this anti-reality.

The White House science adviser has deplored this garbage. He told Science Insider:

But when you get into the domain of promoting particular views about the basis for skepticism of evolution, and those views are not really valid, then I think we have a problem. I think we need to be giving our kids a modern education in biology, and the underpinning of modern biology is evolution. And countervailing views that are not really science, if they are taught at all, should be taught in some other part of the curriculum.

What more can we get in a democracy?

I don't know. Hopefully this intractable mess can be rectified.