Texas Board of Education

This comes two days after Gov. Greg Abbott voiced his most explicit support yet of a new school choice policy at a Parent Empowerment Night event in Corpus Christi.

All 15 seats of the State Board of Education are up for grabs in November, and one race in District 7 highlights how critical race theory has become a key issue.

At a news conference Wednesday, they said misinformation derailed the process of overhauling the curriculum. The State Board of Education was scheduled to adopt the new guidelines in November, but is now expected to delay revisions until 2025.

The Republican-controlled board heard hours of testimony Tuesday on the proposed guidelines. It took a step toward delaying updates to the social studies curriculum standards until 2025 after facing conservative pushback.

A group of eight public school educators and one university professor have suggested the changes for second graders to the Texas State Board of Education which is considering social studies curriculum revisions this summer.

The State Board of Education must still approve use of the Educative Teacher Performance Assessment, which was dropped by two states that had adopted it.

All 15 seats of the State Board of Education are up for grabs in November, and there were more than 50 candidates vying for their parties’ nominations.

Across Texas, there are 15 single-member State Board of Education districts, and every seat is on the ballot this election. The SBOE makes important decisions about things like public school curriculum and what textbooks are used.

Earlier this week, the Texas State Board of Education considered instructional materials that included topics like gender identity and sexual orientation. They were rejected by the board in a preliminary vote, and did not get called up for a final vote Friday.

Until now, the State Board of Education has left library selections up to local schools.

The Republican-dominated, 15-member board determines what millions of public school students in the state are taught in classrooms.

From educators to textbook advisors, experts say state standards, teaching approaches, textbooks and politics all contribute to the erasure of Asian American experiences when history is taught in Texas schools.