Districts could receive as much as $60 per student if the materials are approved by the State Board of Education.
The state of Texas is getting into the business of writing its own textbooks, lesson plans and worksheets for use in public schools. The Texas Education Agency on Wednesday unveiled a range of curricula that districts can acquire for use in classrooms. Members of the public can comment on the materials throughout the summer and the agency will revise them before ultimately seeking approval from the State Board of Education later this fall.
Conservative PragerU courses not approved for Texas schools contrary to board member’s claim TEA’s leader Mike Morath described the move as a way to get more Texas-centric content into classrooms. But it comes as Republicans have pushed back on public school teaching as 'liberal indoctrination' and moved to ban books with LGBTQ content from libraries. Public schools can decide whether or not to use the TEA-crafted materials, which Hearst Newspapers has not yet reviewed in full.
takeover signals Texas Education Agency's increasing sway in schools under GOP-led Legislature Heading into last year’s legislative session, the state’s Republican leaders harbored concerns that public schools didn’t have access to textbooks that sufficiently covered the state standards, resulting in poor standardized test scores.
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