Last week, the State Board of Education (SBOE) voted to adopt the social studies curriculum, after having bowed to the demands of extremists and conspiracy theorists in choosing to delay the revision of Texas’ social studies curriculum, referred to as the Social Studies TEKs, back in August. […]
Education
With a public school enrollment of more than 5 million, Texas has an increasingly diverse public education system. Unfortunately, that public education system is also the target of politicians seeking to privatize our neighborhood public schools and push a culture-war agenda in the classroom.
To that end, the Texas Freedom Network – while continuing to fight private school voucher legislation at the Capitol – has conducted groundbreaking research into what is being taught in classrooms on subjects like sex education and religion.
Resources
Broken Promises: Charter Schools in Texas (2000 report)
Broken Promises II (2001 report)
The State Board of Education: Dragging Texas Schools into the Culture Wars (2008 report)
Just Say Don’t Know: Sex Education in Texas Public Schools (2009 report)
Sex Education in Public Schools: Progress in the Lone Star State (2011 report)
Reading Writing & Religion: Teaching the Bible in Texas Public Schools (2006 report)
Reading, Writing & Religion II (2013 report)
Can This Class Be Saved? The ‘Hobby Lobby’ Public School Bible Curriculum (2014 report)
TEXAS STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION FAILS ON SOCIAL STUDIES BUT VOTES TO OPPOSE PRIVATE SCHOOL VOUCHERS
AUSTIN, Texas — The Texas State Board of Education’s preliminary vote today to approve minimally revised social studies standards first adopted a dozen years ago is a surrender to political pressure from those opposed to teaching the truth about the state’s history and diversity. […]
Texas Board of Education Fails to Update Standards From A Dozen Years Ago During Special Meeting
AUSTIN, Texas – The State Board of Education held a special meeting yesterday to revise current social studies standards to include requirements called for by the law passed under SB3 during the last legislative session. The State Board of Education had the opportunity to vote on amendments that would help improve the standards, but instead, […]
PSA: Ray Bradbury Called, He Wants his Novel Back.
Texas feels a lot like Fahrenheit 451 these days. Not because it is summer, though that’s part of it, but because the new school year is exposing some of the cartoonish and harmful acts the government is committing to control our students’ education. […]
SBOE Watch: How the Board Reached its Latest Decision and What’s Next
Last week, the State Board of Education chose to delay the Social Studies TEKS revision, wasting $200,000 of state funds allocated to workgroups while silencing the voices of our communities. Flooded with misinformation, overwhelmed by public testimony from a small, extremist group of testifiers who opposed an inclusive curriculum, the board bowed to pressure and failed to do its job. […]
