Join the nationwide effort to stop  the extremist takeover of textbooks

The Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) has released new ideologically tainted standards for Texas’s public school textbooks. They’re out to impose one narrow-minded point of view on the content of textbooks used by millions of students.

WHAT CAN YOU DO?

A 30-day comment period is underway—and everyone in America is invited to give their input.  Tell the Texas State School Board that they cannot rewrite history or use curriculum standards to advance an ideological agenda that has no place in our public schools. Comments must be submitted by May 19^th.

WHY IS THIS IMPORTANT TO GEORGIANS?

The impact of what happens in Texas will be felt all across the country. Because Texas purchases tens of millions of textbooks every year, it has outsized influence on the content of textbooks used all over America. In fact, between 46 and 47 states use textbooks based on Texas’s curriculum.

ACT NOW

Learn more below about the specific changes in the curriculum. Then write a letter to the SBOE. It’s important that you personalize your letter. For instance, if you’re a historian, teacher, parent, student, etc., please mention why these changes concern you. Please reference the specific rule section number related to your concern.  

Here are three problematic examples in the proposed standards:

• The Texas State Board of Education is attempting to rewrite history, vindicate Joseph McCarthy and whitewash his litany of civil liberties abuses. Rule section: 19 TEX. ADMIN. CODE §113.41(c)(8)(B). Read more about this problem»
• The standards inappropriately stigmatize Muslims. Rule section: 19 TEX. ADMIN. CODE §113.42(c)(14)(A).
  Read more about this problem»
• The proposed Texas curriculum denies students an unbiased view of American history and heavily favors narrow, conservative political viewpoints at the expense of other views. Rule section: 19 TEX. ADMIN. CODE §113.41(c)(17)(D).
  Read more about this problem»

CLICK HERE TO WRITE YOUR LETTER.