Texas’ State Board of Education is reviewing its social studies curriculum as conservative lawmakers and a new state law place greater scrutiny on how race, slavery and history are taught in Texas schools.
said more needed to be done to “abolish” critical race theory in Texas classrooms, and lawmakers went to work to craft a more restrictive measure. The result was SB 3., a Republican, when Ellis said that it’s the job of the state board to determine what is taught, not the law., a Democrat, told Hughes that his law had already caused damage to the public school system and questioned if the lawmaker consulted with teachers and teacher groups before authoring the bill.
During public comments, response to the board’s proposed standards were overall positive. There was one suggestion to change the term “internment” to “incarceration” when talking about how Japanese Americans were forced from their homes after the Pearl Harbor attack and detained by the federal government. There was also a call from some for more inclusion of Asian Americans in Texas social studies curriculum.
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