Act Now! State School Board Meets to Protect History from CRT, Leftist Plan to Derail Meeting

Earlier this month, we achieved a victory for Texas students when the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) paused and voted against radical revisions to the Social Studies TEKS for K-12 students. The SBOE decided to delay the review and revision of the Social Studies standards until 2025.

BUT, the work is not quite done. The anti-Critical Race Theory Law (Senate Bill 3), authored by Senator Bryan Hughes, requires that Social Studies standards are following the law’s requirements by the end of the year 2022. That means, the SBOE will hold a special meeting next week on Monday September 26 and Tuesday September 27 to vote on the changes that need to be made according to SB 3. The changes being made are expected to make sure students are taught civics and avoid the national trend of teaching that the American founding is bad. Nevertheless, the SBOE will not be deleting or revising any TEKS per their vote earlier this month.

Leftist groups are planning to overwhelm the SBOE next week with testimony that they should not follow SB 3. Some groups are hoping that they can sway the board to consider their LGBT and Critical Race Theory suggestions that were defeated. We do not want the board to violate the law by not abiding by SB 3. We also do not want leftist groups overwhelming the SBOE next week with negative testimony. Please let the board know that you want them to comply with the anti-CRT law and not make any changes to what students are currently learning that are outside what is required by law.

On Monday, the SBOE will hear public testimony on the SB 3 recommendations, which you can view here. You can sign up to testify beginning Thursday, September 22 at 8 a.m. Testimony registration closes at 5p.m. Friday, September 23. Register here.

For more information, please visit txvalues.org and be sure to sign up for our email updates. You can also email [email protected] with questions related to the standards and how to register.