

Now, after last year’s approval of new state standards for health classes, the board must approve new textbooks-and that’s where the new battlefront is. Lone Star Parent Power: How One of the Nation’s Toughest Anti-Critical Race Theory Laws Emboldened Angry Texas Parents Demanding Book Banning, Educator Firings On Tuesday the State Board of Education will decide whether proposed textbooks that include content on gender identity and sexual orientation will make their way into the backpacks and laptops of children in Texas and across the country. The culture wars keep coming in Texas, and the latest one involves sex, textbooks, and the LGBTQ experience. A third health textbook for elementary school failed on a 6-6 tie. and Human Kinetics that include sex education, with opposition citing content about masturbation and abortion, insufficient attention to abstinence or a lack of constituent support. Board members voted along party lines to reject the middle school textbooks from LessonBee, Inc. Donate here to support The 74's independent journalism.Īt a meeting Friday, the Texas State Board of Education officially refused to recommend three health textbooks, including two books mentioned in this report. Sign up here for The 74’s daily newsletter. and Human Kinetics that include sex ed, with opposition citing content about masturbation and abortion, insufficient attention to abstinence or a lack of constituent support Board members voted Friday to reject the middle school textbooks from LessonBee, Inc.It’s what does the average Republican primary voter think,” said Rice University political science prof When it comes to teaching about sex, he said, it’s “that nothing should be taught or the bare minimum.” “It’s not what do average Texans think.The State Board of Education to decide whether proposed textbooks that include content on gender identity and sexual orientation will make their way into the backpacks and laptops of children in Texas and across the country.NC Judge’s $1.7 Billion Order Will Fund New State Plan to Ensure All Students Can Access Sound Education Proposed California Ballot Measure Would Give Parents ‘Legal Standing’ to Sue for Better Schools as Right-to-Education Efforts Spread How Does Smoking Marijuana Affect Academic Performance? Two Researchers Explain How it Can Alter More Than Just Moods New Data Show School Staffing Shortages Disproportionately Hitting High-Poverty Districts During Pandemic Who Are NYPD’s New ‘Youth Coordination Officers’ Headed to Schools? Texas College Students and Professors Feel the Effects of Halted Study Abroad Programs This Week in COVID & Education Policy: Surge in School Closures Hits Over 700 Districts, Doubts About Safety Fuel Parent Vaccine Hesitancy and More Reading Remedies: How One School Battled COVID Reading Woes Through Teacher Support and Training One School, Many Principals: How This Rural School District is Coping with Staffing Shortages How a Sex Scene in a Young Adult Novel Touched Off Texas’s Latest Culture War ‘Jim Crow Debt’: Black Student Loan Borrowers Say Staggering Repayment Prevents them from Affording Food, Rent, Health Care, Homes, Retirement They’re Still Better Than Dashing Through School Halls Trying to Be in 3 Places at Once
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