Fort Worth appears to have restarted its sexual education curriculum after parents and residents pushed back on both content and the adoption process.
The decision represents a reversal from the state board's previous opposition to school choice measures last year.
Candidates promising to oppose “woke” curricula and Critical Race Theory captured more seats on the state board that sets standards for public schools.
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.
Current drafts for the Social Studies Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) encourage discussion of "institutional racism" and cut Texas history curriculum.
The responses to last year's ban have been mixed, and some lawmakers are doubtful that it is having a measurable effect on Texas classrooms.
Teaching with primary source documents could defuse some of the debate over bias in social studies and history textbooks often used in public schools.
Here's the story behind "involuntary relocation" and the State Board of Education's process for writing the Texas curriculum.
The State Board of Education has only rejected most charter applicants on the agenda once before, at last year's meeting.
All three of the losing candidates in the May 24 Democratic runoffs were endorsed by the AFT, a prominent teachers' union.
