Hillary Clinton will stay in history classes, Dallas mayor has tough love after HQ2 announcement: Your Wednesday morning roundup

November 14,  2018 By Carla Solórzano Good morning! Here is a look at the top headlines as we start the day. ☀️ Weather: Morning hard freeze, then sunny and cold. High of 46. 🔎 Prefer the online view? It's [here](. Gabrielle Caldwell, a 17-year-old student who is deaf and blind, posed with her mother, Robbie Caldwell, at the State Board of Education on Tuesday in the William B. Travis Building in Austin. The Caldwells want Helen Keller to remain in the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, or TEKS, for social studies. The TEKS dictate what must be taught to Texas' 5.4 million public schoolchildren (Lauren McGaughy/DMN Staff) politics Texas board reverses course, votes to keep Hillary Clinton, Helen Keller in history curriculum [The State Board of Education has voted to keep Hillary Clinton](, Helen Keller and several other historical figures in the Texas social studies curriculum. The Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills, or TEKS, are baseline curriculum standards public school teachers use to create lesson plans and prepare for testing. During a more-than-10-hour meeting on Tuesday, the 15-member state board took a preliminary vote on which historical figures to remove from these standards to "streamline" the curriculum and provide more flexibility to teachers. Clinton and Keller and several others were returned to the curriculum, while several others are still on the chopping block. The board will continue the debate Wednesday, when it is expected to approve these changes, and will then take a final vote on the entire curriculum later Friday. The decisions will not result in an immediate change to Texas textbooks, which are not up for revision this year, but will affect what teachers must teach in the classroom under state law. Meanwhile: [Hillary Clinton was honored at University of Texas]( and warned of President Donald Trump's ‘deliberate falseness.’ And: A judge denied [Gina Ortiz Jones' bid to extend a vote count in her Texas Congressional race]( against Will Hurd. Advertisement [ Amazon HQ2 After Amazon slam, here’s the tough love that Dallas and Texas need to hear about HQ2 From business columnist Mitchell Schnurman: Soon after learning that Dallas wouldn’t be getting Amazon’s second headquarters, [the Dallas Regional Chamber put out a statement](. “Make no mistake,” CEO Dale Petroskey said in the news release, “this has been a ‘win’ for our region regardless of the outcome.” Say what? Dallas not only failed to land Amazon HQ2. It fell short on HQ3, too. And HQ4. On Tuesday, Amazon said it was splitting its second headquarters between New York City and northern Virginia, near Washington. It also announced that a new operations center would be created in Nashville. Mayor Mike Rawlings offered some tough love for the residents of Dallas and the lawmakers in Austin, and he predicted there would be some soul-searching in the months ahead. We have “to look hard at ourselves and say, ‘Why can we not beat New York City and Washington, D.C.?” Rawlings said at a news conference in Dallas. He soon answered: “[It’s all about the people](.” What could have been: Here's the Amazon HQ2 pitch [that would have dramatically changed Dallas' skyline](. The silver lining: North Texas developers hope to use [the Amazon 'roadmap' to snag the next big thing](. football Division or bust? Believe it or not, Cowboys have a surprising road map to a wild-card playoff spot From columnist Tim Cowlishaw: I realize that a team that hasn't won consecutive games since last December shouldn't be talking about playing meaningful games this December. But it's a strange year, even by NFL standards, and Sunday's upending of the Super Bowl champs has folks thinking that more victories are on the way. [The ESPN Power Index gives the Cowboys a 30 percent chance of reaching the playoffs](. I think it might be even higher. Let's go all the way to 32. And we should also fix one myth about this team that may have been propagated from this very space. Peeling back the curtain just a bit, we have two deadlines when we write stories about the Cowboys on night games. In the column I filed at 11:05, roughly 40 minutes after the Eagles were stopped inside the 10-yard line, I said that at 4-5 the Cowboys already had forfeited their wild-card hopes, that their only playoff chance was based on winning the NFC East. I said that, thinking more of the general rule, since only the 2016 Detroit Lions (9-7) have earned an NFC wild card since 2010 without at least 10 wins. In fact, over the last 10 years, 11 of the 20 NFC wild cards have had at least 11 wins. You can occasionally win a downtrodden division with nine wins, [but wild-card trips are rare](. And: [The Cowboys have some demons to slay in Atlanta]( if they want to prove they've truly broken through. Also: CFP chair [Rob Mullens called Oklahoma's defense a 'deficiency']( and said it factors into rankings. 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Hunt and once the richest woman in America, [died Tuesday night after suffering a stroke on Oct. 31](. The philanthropist, hotelier, author, world traveler, gourmet, entrepreneur, mother of five, grandmother of 19 and great-grandmother of 23 was 95. “My mother changed the complexion of the city,” said her only daughter Laurie Harrison. “She bought land in an area that nobody wanted to be in and created The Mansion on Turtle Creek. She took something that was historical and made it useful and beautiful. She took 13 acres that was a car lot and created The Crescent — one of the most beautiful Philip Johnson buildings in America. “My mother lived three or four lifetimes in one. She was something else.” 👋 That's all for this morning! For up-to-the-minute news and analysis, check out [DallasNews.com](. Share the love! If you like this newsletter, please forward this email to a friend and [check out our other newsletters here](. Do you have feedback? 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