Despite amendments that could have derailed parents’ fight against gender, sexual and racial ideologies, the Texas education board voted Friday to postpone and reassess controversial changes to the state’s social studies curriculum.
On Tuesday, a committee of the entire board voted to shelve controversial changes to social studies until 2025 after an outcry from conservative parents.
More than 100 people, mainly conservatives, signed up to speak on the social studies curriculum. Parents were also concerned that the social studies curriculum was leaving out Texas and American exceptionalism.
Texas parents showed up to speak against changes in the social studies curriculum at a State Board of Education meeting in Austin, Texas, on Aug. 30, 2022. (Darlene McCormick Sanchez/The Epoch Times)
At the general meeting on Friday, the board finalized those recommendations they approved on Tuesday. They voted to move forward with only social studies changes that would satisfy requirements for civics outlined in Senate Bill 3, which also banned Critical Race Theory in schools….