Title: State Board of Education Call to Action
Original CoS Document (slug): tx-collin-county-sboe
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Created: 2022-08-25 15:10:00
Updated: 2023-09-06 10:00:07
Published: 2022-08-24 01:00:00
Converted: 2025-04-14T20:29:12.665206905
Final update: proposed new Social Studies curriculum rejected
The State Board of Education (SBOE) passed three final motions yesterday that are good for parents, children, and conservatives:
- The full SBOE voted to only modify the existing Social Studies TEKS for the changes required by Senate Bill-3. The TEA staff is directed to make these modifications, with a first reading scheduled for September 27, and a second reading scheduled for November 18.
- Also, they voted, 8-7, for a new Social Studies TEKS framework investigation to be conducted by the SBOE by February 2025. This vote rejects the proposed TEKS framework and work product that was under consideration. It also puts Social Studies back on its original schedule for considering revisions.
- Finally, they had another vote that maintained the status quo for Ethnic Studies, which rejects the new proposals from Workgroup E.
Thank you all for sending emails and making calls. It makes a difference when we speak up!
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Update: SBOE tentatively votes to scrap radical new Social Studies curriculum; what's next?
We had a victory for self-governance Tuesday! The SBOE has tentatively voted 7-2 to table the radical new Social Studies curriculum. While this is a big win, we have the final vote on Friday. We have another call-to-action below to get the final vote to stop this radical change to Texas Social Studies.
From the Houston Chronicle:
We alerted you about the State Board of Education (SBOE) public meeting held yesterday, August 30, to review the new Social Studies curriculum for grades K-8. This meeting was set to hear public comment on the new proposed curriculum and vote on moving forward. We asked you to contact your SBOE representatives and legislators to make your voice heard.
It worked. The SBOE members commented that they received hundreds of phone calls and thousands of emails against the new curriculum. Additionally, the Texas Freedom Caucus wrote a strong letter to the SBOE, indicating the changes were “unacceptable and in many cases illegal”. Finally, after deploying COS activists from across the state over 150 people showed up and filled the hearing to capacity to speak against the new proposed curriculum.
What's next? On Friday, the SBOE will take a final vote on the new Social Studies curriculum.
- Please write and call our SBOE representatives, and the state representatives that signed the letter to the SBOE.
- Thank them for voting to table the Social Studies TEKS until 2025.
- Ask them to confirm the rejection of the revised Social Studies curriculum in the final vote on Friday.
- Please take this step, even if you did not previously contact your representative on this curriculum change. It only takes a few minutes, but when we all do it, the impact can be huge!
- If you are able to be in Austin Friday, please come! The meeting will be at William B. Travis Building, Room 1-104, 1701 N. Congress Avenue. It starts at 9 AM, and you need to register for public comment (on agenda item 3) by 8:30 AM. Showing up matters!
Our Convention of States team with Rick Green at the SBOE meeting:
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Action needed by August 30
The State Board of Education (SBOE) is holding a hearing on a new TEKS Social Studies Curriculum on August 30 in Austin. Per Dr. Jeff Lash, advisor to the SBOE on TEKS:
The TEKS drafts present material will diminish the emphasis on Texas and American History, including the Founding Fathers, Declaration of Independence, U.S. Constitution, all wars engaged by the U.S., Communism, Stalinism, Fascism, Chinese Communism, and major technological inventions.
The hearing is next Tuesday. We need to email & call our SBOE representatives, and those over the SBOE. This new curriculum will be harmful to our children, grandchildren, and country.
We need to contact our representatives now:
Email all of these today: * This link will provide your SBOE rep contact info. It will take a couple clicks to get to the email & phone #: https://wrm.capitol.texas.gov/home * The SBOE Chair & board: Kevin Ellis - ellisSBOE@gmail.com * This link sends the email to all board members: sboesupport@tea.texas.gov * The Texas Education Agency Commissioner: Mike Morath - commissioner@tea.texas.gov Gov. Abbott and Lt. Gov. Patrick have web forms - copy & paste your email into these forms: * Gov. Greg Abbott * Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick | Content Suggestions… Be polite, concise, but ask for action. “Writing concerning 2022 TEKS curriculum draft…” What you don’t like here: “contrary to TX law”, “leaves out …”, “adds in woke ideology”, “dangerous to our children”, lots of possibilities Close with: the draft should NOT be adopted, it should be rejected or tabled Send emails, copy into Gov/Lt Gov forms Also call SBOE rep, SBOE chair |
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