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.
Some say the review never should have begun. Others say it fast-tracked obscene books back onto library shelves.
Like most other schooling decisions in Texas, the authority to choose textbooks ultimately comes down to the district or charter.
Critical race theory may have been a driving issue in Republican primaries, featuring in the races for both incumbents that lost on March 1.
