With Republicans posed to retain majority control of the State Board of Education on Tuesday, Democrats may be vulnerable in several races.
The SBOE elected to move forward with small revisions to the social studies TEKS almost a month after they decided to scrap widespread changes to curricula.
Opposition also revolved around the lack of American and Texas History in K-8 standards.
Here's the story behind "involuntary relocation" and the State Board of Education's process for writing the Texas curriculum.
All three of the losing candidates in the May 24 Democratic runoffs were endorsed by the AFT, a prominent teachers' union.
The State Board of Education has never rejected a majority of charter school applicants before. The meeting's narrowest vote was bipartisan.
