Iniya traces the roots of her advocacy back to Pinkerton Elementary School in Coppell ISD, near Dallas. She credits teachers there with inspiring and encouraging her to find her interests and her voice. But the roots Pinkerton nourished grew from seeds planted at home. Her family inherited a belief in advocating for what is right. […]
Textbook Censorship
Faith Inspires Student’s SBOE Advocacy
Through public school, homeschooling during the pandemic, and now online school, 14-year-old Austinite Abdurahman has had at least one constant in his education: parents who taught him to be an inquisitive and deep thinker. They are raising him to critically analyze information rather than accept it at face value. When he heard about the proposed […]
Mom Advocates to Preserve History
When Kiyomi Beach decided to dive into advocacy, she asked herself how she could contribute in a way that allowed her to speak from her own lived and personal experience. She knew someone who was serving as a work group member providing feedback on a new social studies curriculum to content advisors appointed by members […]
Book Ban Backlash? Texas School Board Extremists Continue to Lose Key Races Across the State
School Districts like Lake Travis and Mansfield have become known as ground zero for book bans and other Christian Nationalist policies in recent years, but Texans have said enough is enough. In the May 2026 elections, several far-right incumbents got the boot as Democratic-backed challengers secured victories across the state. Not just inside Lake Travis […]
Alert: SBOE Work Groups Need YOU
Are you someone who disliked group work back in school? Maybe you felt that you could do a better job alone, or that other group members wouldn’t pull their weight. Well, dearest gentle reader, if ever there was a time for you to change that outlook and join a group project, it is today! From […]
