In 2022, conservative groups celebrated a 鈥済reat victory鈥 over 鈥渨okeified鈥 curriculum when the Texas State Board of Education squashed proposed social studies requirements for schools that included teaching kindergartners how Rosa Parks and Cesar Chavez 鈥渁dvocated for positive change.鈥
Another win came a year later as the state board rejected several textbooks that some Republicans argued could promote a 鈥渞adical environmental agenda鈥 because they linked climate change to human behavior or presented what conservatives perceived to be a negative portrayal of fossil fuels.
By the time the state board approved science and career-focused textbooks for use in Texas classrooms at the end of 2023, it appeared to be comfortably in sync with conservatives who had won control of local school boards across the state in recent years.
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