If the first meeting of 2024 is any indication, too many SBOE members are already more interested in playing politics than educating kids. […]
Textbook Censorship
The Texas State Board of Education decides what every student in Texas public schools will learn from kindergarten through high school. The board does so by adopting curriculum standards and textbooks for public schools in the state.
For decades, far-right politicians on the State Board of Education and their extremist allies have taken advantage of this flawed system to dismiss the advice of experts and scholars. They have instead worked to inject their personal views into textbooks on everything from evolution and climate change to the history of slavery, civil rights, and separation of church and state.
Resources
- Report Reveals Serious Flaws in Social Studies Textbooks
- The State Board of Education: Dragging Texas Schools into the Culture Wars (2008 report)
- Evolution, Creationism & Public Schools: Surveying Texas Scientists (2008 report)
- Culture Wars and the Classroom (2010 report)
- Senate Bill 6: Changes in the Textbook Adoption Process (2011 report)
- Texas Science Curriculum Standards: Challenges (2012 report)
- Science Textbook Review (2013 report)
- Social Studies Textbook Review (2014 report)
The Blue State Booksellers Fighting Texas Book Bans From Maryland: A Conversation with People’s Book Co-Owner Matt Bormet
Meet the blue state booksellers fighting Texas books ban from Maryland: Matt Bormet and his wife Megan, owners of People’s Book. […]
What is the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE)?
The Texas SBOE is a board, made up of 15 elected members from across the state, that decides what is and isn’t taught in our public schools.
Why does the SBOE matter? And how can you be part of our important work to #TeachTheTruth? […]
Take Action: How to Testify at the State Board of Education (SBOE)
From Nov. 14-17, the State Board of Education will vote on science textbook adoption for school districts across Texas, affecting how students will learn about climate change and evolution in the classroom for the next decade. Tell the SBOE they should NOT politicize the science textbook adoption process. Instead, they should listen to the experts, […]
Book Banning and Censorship in Schools Intensify As We Fight for the Freedom To Read
Book banning and censorship in schools have become the norm in 2023 Texas. How can we protect the freedom to read this Banned Books Week? […]
