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‘I have a dream’ speech would be dropped as class requirement Legislation stalled until breakaway Democrats return from D.C. July 16, 2021 8:11 PM By Paul Stinson The Texas Senate on Friday passed legislation that would end requirements that public schools include writings on women’s suffrage and the civil rights movement in social studies classes. Among the figures whose works would be dropped: Susan B. Anthony, Cesar Chavez, and Martin Luther King Jr., whose “I Have a Dream”speech and “Letter from a Birmingham Jail” would no longer make the curri...

Texas Senate bill seeks to strip required lessons on people of color and women from “critical race theory” law Texas Tribune Updated:  Tags:  The empty entryway of Judson High School on Aug. 11, 2020, in Converse. Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Texas lawmakers have filed at least three bills targeting how racism, current events and the country’s founding principles are taught in K-12 schools — including a senate bill that would strip out upcoming requirements that students learn white supremacy is “moral...

Metro Creative Over the last year, discussion of race relations, injustice and inequity has been pushed into the national spotlight. In Texas schools, those conversations could look a lot different if the Texas Legislature approves a bill that restricts how teachers can discuss current events in the classroom and teach about America’s historical treatment of people of color. House Bill 3979, which mirrors legislation making its way through state legislatures across the country, has been coined the “critical race theory bill,” which studies th...

 daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. Dallas Independent School District teacher Jocelyn Foshay was guiding a social studies lesson with her middle school class about the amendment that protects Americans from unreasonable search and seizure. “Where was the Fourth Amendment to protect Breonna Taylor?” a student asked her, referring to a Black woman who was shot and killed in her apartment by Louisville police officers during a botched raid in 2020. Foshay turned the question back to her students. “What do you think?” she asked, allowing st...

Dallas Independent School District teacher Jocelyn Foshay was guiding a social studies lesson with her middle school class about the amendment that protects Americans from unreasonable search and seizure. “Where was the Fourth Amendment to protect Breonna Taylor?” a student asked her, referring to a Black woman who was shot and killed in her apartment by Louisville police officers during a botched raid in 2020. Foshay turned the question back to her students. “What do you think?” she asked, allowing students to process their thoughts and draw their own conclusions. These a...