The State Board of Education narrowly voted Friday to delay updating Texas' social studies curriculum until 2025 after facing pressure from conservatives over proposed changes.
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Instead, the board voted 10-4 in favor of using Hickman’s proposed order of teaching Texas history to fifth and eighth graders. Board members who voted to delay the vote said they did not like the proposed order in which students would be taught Texas history even though the board initially accepted the order months ago.
“In a stunning reversal of the spirit in which the Legislature passed several reforms meant to protect children last session, the proposed changes require educators to, among other things, violate Texas laws by, for example, teaching subjects associated with critical race theory,” the letter stated. Delaying the process could allow more conservative candidates who are against so-called critical race theory to be elected to the State Board of Education before the standards are revisited.against critical race theory won primaries this spring and will be on the ballot for the State Board of Education general election in November.
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