After mounting pressure from conservative groups, state officials officially punted Texas’ rewrite of how it teaches history until 2025.
Friday’s move comes after a marathon State Board of Education meeting earlier this week where conservatives urged its members to throw out the proposed social studies revamp.
But board members were bombarded with emails and calls from conservative groups, urging them to change course and labeling the earlier proposals as full of critical race theory. While some of the newly-elected Republican board members pushed to stall the process, Democrats on the board lamented the delay.
Legislators passed bills meant to keep critical race theory out of classrooms that also required developing a civics training program for teachers and largely barred schools from giving credit to students for advocacy work. It also urges educators to teach only that slavery and racism are “deviations” from the founding principles of the United States.
Critical race theory probes the way policies and laws uphold systemic racism -- such as in education, housing or criminal justice. Education leaders across the state repeatedly insistis not part of K-12 lessons. However, many conservative pundits have conflated equity work in education -- including multicultural lessons -- with critical race theory.
Meanwhile, the board did decide to keep Texas and U.S. history classes in fourth grade and middle school — one of the major points of contention for those who spoke out against efforts to incorporate state history across multiple grades.
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