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In the Texas Democratic sweep on Election Day, the Texas State Board of Education flipped. For years the SBOE has been ground zero in the culture war by issuing directives to public schools to teach a curriculum that pushed a pro-Christian right point of view, denying climate change and twisting history. We are joined by the South Texas SBOE representative Marisa Perez Diaz to hear about her plans in the new blue SBOE.

Critics of the materials the Texas Education Agency created have said they include Bible stories that are not age-appropriate and veer into proselytizing. Supporters say biblical narratives have literary and historical value.

Until now, the State Board of Education has left library selections up to local schools.

In 2018, the 15-member Texas State Board of Education voted to streamline the social studies curriculum. They kept in that Moses informed the American…

The Texas State Board of Education preliminarily voted 14-0 today to reject a Mexican-American history textbook that scholars have said was riddled with...

State Board of Education members on Tuesday heard public comment about a controversial textbook meant for the Mexican-American Studies course in Texas…

Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner is asking the Texas Board of Education to reject a controversial textbook as a newly released report called the content…

State Senator Jose Menendez said on TPR's "The Source" Wednesday he will be working with the Hispanic caucus in the Texas legislature to denounce a…

From Texas Standard: In Texas education, there always plenty of fodder still out there to spark outrage. Take a proposed social studies textbook titled ...

From the Texas Tribune: Weeks after a Houston-area mother sparked an uproar over a caption in her son’s textbook that inaccurately described African...