Attempt to Add Climate Change and Oppression Into Texas Social Studies Fails
Democrats on the Texas State Board of Education were blocked from adding climate change and painting Texas Rangers as oppressors in social studies lessons during a Sept. 26 meeting.
The special meeting held in Austin was billed as a public hearing on proposed social studies learning standards to meet SB3 requirements. The bill, which became law in 2021, prohibits teaching Critical Race Theory, a Marxist-based ideology, that labels people as oppressors or victims depending on their skin color or sexual identity.
Monday’s public hearing came on the heels of a Sept. 23 letter from the Texas Anti-definition League and Texas Freedom Network, organizations aligned with the ideology of the progressive left, chastising the board for delaying a “progressive” overhaul of the the state’s social studies standards….