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Texas Parents Win Another Round in Fight to Block Progressive Changes to Social Studies

Last minute effort to insert gender and racial content back into the classroom narrowly fails

Texas Parents Win Another Round in Fight to Block Progressive Changes to Social Studies
Signs against critical race theory in front of the Loudoun County School Administration building in Virginia on Nov. 9, 2021. Terri Wu/The Epoch Times
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Senior Reporter
9/3/2022|Updated: 9/3/2022
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Despite amendments that could have derailed parents’ fight against gender, sexual and racial ideologies, the Texas education board voted Friday to postpone and reassess controversial changes to the state’s social studies curriculum.

On Tuesday, a committee of the entire board voted to shelve controversial changes to social studies until 2025 after an outcry from conservative parents.

Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Darlene McCormick Sanchez
Senior Reporter
Darlene McCormick Sanchez is an Epoch Times reporter who covers border security and immigration, election integrity, and Texas politics. Ms. McCormick Sanchez has 20 years of experience in media and has worked for outlets including Waco Tribune Herald, Tampa Tribune, and Waterbury Republican-American. She was a finalist for a Pulitzer prize for investigative reporting.
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