Schools would require parental consent if the "psychological examination" performed by staff on students has “embedded” psychological testing methods.
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.
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.
A board member indicated he believed some of the proposed materials would run afoul of state statutes on parental rights.
The special session replacement for the bill meant to curb critical race theory in the classroom differs from the original in a few key ways.
Calls for the inclusion of LGBT terminology and gender identity education did not persuade the state board's curriculum decision.
Rejecting calls for LGBT inclusion, the proposed TEKS continue to push abstinence while presenting facts the current standards leave out.
LGBT activists call the sex education standards too narrow, while others fear the new plan could override abstinence-only parental teaching.
