INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — When James Loewen wrote “Lies My Teacher Told Me,” the relatively famous critique of American history textbooks found in high school classrooms across the nation, he dedicated it to all the teachers who teach against the book.

If Senate Education Chairman Dennis Kruse, an Auburn Republican, succeeds in pushing through his “truth in education” measure in the coming session, teachers would be protected from sanctions if they teach against the established scientific principle of evolution.