Opinion: In State Board of Education fight, kids are the losers

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Texas Senator Bryan Hughes, right, speaks Monday, Aug. 1, 2022, at the William B. Travis Building in Austin during a State Board of Education special board meeting. The board was hearing public testimony and discussing updates to the state’s social studies curriculum. Hughes was the author of Senate Bill 3 which passed in the last legislative session and is designed to limit how teachers could discuss issues of race in the classroom.

He says that if the board moves forward with the curriculum as drafted, it could “become a problem within the party generally and within conservative activists. That’s not good for anybody. That’s not good for the party. That’s not good for the SBOE. That’s not good for Republican lawmakers. That’s not good for the governor or the lieutenant governor.”

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