Glenn Beck said many odd, fear-mongering things in tonight's special show on school indoctrination, but California was a particular target. Among other things, he claimed that “lawmakers there voted in 2008 for children to be taught by communists.”

As you might expect, Beck isn't telling the whole story.

Children being “taught by communists” is not some sort of mandate, as he suggests. In 2008, the state legislature passed a bill repealing a Cold War-era state law that made “knowing membership in a communist party” by a teacher a firing offense. California was the only state in the union that allowed public employees to be dismissed for membership in a political party.

Does Beck oppose freedom of association? It appears so -- after all, it is a progressive idea.