Texas Scorecard By Michael Quinn Sullivan April 1, 2026
When the State Board of Education meets next week, Texas’ social studies curriculum will be on the agenda.With the State Board of Education set to consider changes to Texas’ public school curriculum on social studies, Muslim activists are reportedly planning to push for more inclusion of Islamic history and dogma. That has conservative activists calling for Texans to speak out.
Fran Rhodes, who leads the True Texas Project, raised alarms on Wednesday morning that items on the SBOE’s April 7 agenda are set to be used by Muslims engaged in “lobbying for Islamic issues to be included in social studies.” The SBOE meeting is set to run through April 10 in Austin.
Curriculum in government schools must adhere to the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills. The proposed revisions to the social studies TEKS have drawn praise from many education reformers—but derision from Islamists keen on inserting their religion into the classroom.
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