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Posted: 2018-09-15T06:02:57Z | Updated: 2018-09-15T10:49:41Z

The Texas State Board of Education voted Friday to remove mentions of Hillary Clinton and Helen Keller from the states mandatory history curriculum but will keep in Moses influence on U.S. founding documents , The Dallas Morning News reported.

The changes are part of an effort to selectively streamline information in history classes for some 5.4 million schoolchildren.

As a part of the boards assessment, each historical figure was given a numerical importance rating from one to 20 by committee members, according to the newspaper. Clinton, the first woman in U.S. history to win a presidential nomination by a major political party, only ranked a five. Keller, a writer and activist born in 1888 who was the first deaf and blind American to earn a college degree, rated a seven.

Local members of the Texas legislature rated a 20. All students are required to learn about the current U.S. president, so Donald Trump was not assessed.

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Texas Monthly reported that board members had considered cutting a value-laden phrase about all the heroic defenders who gave their lives in the 1836 battle of the Alamo against Mexican soldiers in what was then Mexican Texas. One state official called it politically correct nonsense, and the board chose not to drop it.

In Texas, you dont mess with the Alamo and you dont mess with our Christian heritage, Texas Values President Jonathan M. Saenz said in a statement. We applaud the majority of the State Board of Education for doing the right thing by restoring our foundational rights and history.

The vote is preliminary and may still change. The final vote is in November.

The annual decisions are often controversial.

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