Texas State Board of Education

A dusty abandoned classroom, with a worn out looking blackboard, one battered desk-chair and another single chair. A doorway leads into another abandoned room.

Meet the Latest Wingnuts to Join the State Board of Ed

Seditious Texiters. Conspiracy theorists. A January 6 insurrectionist.

by Josephine Lee

Voters Reinforce Republican Stronghold on State Board of Education

by Michelle Pitcher

Mexican-American Studies Summit Takes on ‘Racist’ Textbook

by Patrick Michels

Primary Concerns: What We’re Watching on Super Tuesday

by Texas Observer Staff

Signs at the Texas Freedom Network's Stand Up for Science rally

Here’s the Fringe Theology Kids are Learning in Texas Schools

by David R. Brockman

slavery

How Texas Failed to Catch a Geography Textbook’s Glaring Slavery Error

by Patrick Michels

David Arriaga checks on students in his Mexican-American studies class at Houston’s Stephen F. Austin High School in April.

Dragging the State Board into the Present

by Patrick Michels

Watching Out For the Future of Texas Home Schooling

by Texas Observer Staff

State Board of Education member Ruben Cortez (D-Brownsville) speaks before public testimony on a proposed Mexican-American history course.

State Board Finds a New Path to Mexican-American Studies in Texas Schools

by Patrick Michels

MALDEF attorney Celina Moreno

Mexican-American History Supporters Urge State Board to Approve New Course

by Patrick Michels

Don McLeroy

We Blinded Them…With Science

by Eileen Smith

At Senate Hearing, Donna Campbell Misses A Link or Two

At confirmation hearing for SBOE chair Barbara Cargill, freshman Sen. Donna Campbell steals the show.

by Patrick Michels