Parental rights groups and politicians are perturbed about proposed Texas teaching standards that would widen the discussion of sexual orientation and gender in high school classes and replace the influence of the Bible on the U.S. Constitution with that of the Iroquois Confederacy.
The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) called an emergency hearing on Aug. 1 to discuss the draft recommendations proposed by work groups and to collect feedback.
The draft recommendations are part of Texas Education Knowledge and Skills standards, which are required to be updated to include civics, history, and social studies. The state’s education code directs work groups to revise and update the standards….