Board members were initially expected to take a final vote on the standards in November. That would give publishers enough time to update textbooks for the 2025-26 school year. But with all of the pushback, that timeline is in limbo.
The board is in the process of updating the standards for social studies that would determine what and how history is taught in Texas.Each group has spent countless hours over the past year coming up with recommended changes to the state curriculum.
"We don't cower. We don't cater just because it hurts someone's feelings. And we're not going to hug this one out," the Southlake resident said."Would there be any way of mentioning this," said board member Rebecca Bell-Mettereau. There was also disagreement as to how to teach the treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II.
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