Texas Schools Rewriting History | Odessa News

Odessa News Today | 2 Min News | The Daily News Now! · Aug 31, 2026 · 2m

Texas is poised to roll out a sweeping overhaul of its high school social studies curriculum, sparking national debate. The new standards, backed by a GOP-majority board, aim to tie American founding principles and biblical imagery to civil rights icons like MLK, while also spotlighting critiques of the welfare state through the lens of LBJ’s Great Society. Critics—including educators, students, and Democrats—warn the changes undermine diversity, erase global perspectives (including the elimination of a sixth-grade world cultures course), and sideline teacher input in favor of conservative…