Recap of Last Week’s Historic SBOE Meeting

Written By Montgomery County Eagle Forum
 
SBOE meeting attendees

Last week, the State Board of Education took final action on the revision of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for Social Studies and adopted a new required list of literary works for Texas public schools. The decisions made during those five days will shape what more than 5.5 million Texas students learn for years to come.

Many of you attended the meeting in Austin or submitted your public testimony online, supporting standards that strengthen the teaching of Texas and American history, and opposing Islamic insertions in history curriculum. Thank you to everyone who took action!

As a result of your hard work:

  • The Bible is back as required reading for the first time since 1963!

  • Students will study the foundations of Western Civilization, the Declaration of Independence, the United States Constitution, the Bill of Rights, free enterprise, and civic virtue.

  • The standards will strengthen instruction on the contributions of the Founding Fathers, the principles of self-government, and the ideas that shaped both Texas and the United States.

Click below for a full recap from Tiffany Nelson, the Republican nominee for State Board of Education (Dist. 6).

 
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Montgomery County Eagle Forum (MCEF) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization devoted to educating, motivating and activating citizens to become involved in our local, state and national governments. We desire the restoration and preservation of the Judeo-Christian principles upon which the United States was founded and want to help you get involved.

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