What the article actually says:

"And Thomas Jefferson has been dropped from a list of enlightenment thinkers in the world-history curriculum, despite being one of the Founding Fathers who is credited with developing the idea that church and state should be separate."

"Dropped from a list of enlightenment thinkers." That's not removing all mention.

And "The Founding Fathers may not have intended a complete separation of church and state" could mean a lot of different things. It's important to note that each individual Colony that became State had their own "State Churches," although these were quietly dropped. And you have to admit, the other side has gone a bit overboard. Denying students a right to peaceful assembly for a Bible study at a Public School is a misuse of the Constititution. I would say the same for Buddhists, or anyone else.

The truth is: "Separation of Church and State" is not in the constitution. Those words appear nowhere.

What I would be looking for is how will they treat the actual lives of the FF's. I've seen attmepts to make George Washington or Ben Franklin into Evangelical Christians, which is a stretch. And are they just trying to keep the influence of Christianity from being totally written out of history - OR are they goign farther in painting a picture of the Founding Years of the US as something it wasn't.

Now the thing about more Hispanic Role models- that definitly is a problem, if a lot of Hispanics are in your school district.

Whitewashing McCarthyism could also be a problem. Nancy Reagan was one of the people they tagged! :]