Texas Board Delivers MASSIVE Win for Truth in Education — Critics in Full Meltdown

Liberty Check

• Texas Board of Education approves curriculum requiring accurate teaching about radical Islam’s role in 9/11 and early Islamic history
• Despite opposition from leftist groups and board Democrats, Republican majority stands firm on historical accuracy
• New standards phase in during 2030-31 school year, ensuring Texas students learn unfiltered history

The Texas Board of Education delivered a decisive victory for truth in education, giving final approval to changes in the state’s high school social studies curriculum that will ensure students learn accurate history about Islam, Christianity, and America’s founding principles.

The amended curriculum, covering U.S. history, government and world geography, drew fierce opposition from activist groups during public testimony sessions. Most speakers opposed the changes, revealing the left’s discomfort with historical accuracy.

The board approved language correctly identifying that “radical Islam” motivated the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks rather than obscuring this truth behind vague references to unnamed terrorist groups. This straightforward acknowledgment of reality has become controversial only because of decades of political correctness.

The new material also requires students to study early Islamic history through a comprehensive lens, including Prophet Muhammad’s military campaigns against Jewish and Christian communities, the practice of slavery, and the taking of female captives. These are documented historical facts that students deserve to know.

Several Democratic State Board of Education members predictably pushed back against accurate historical wording. But the Republican-majority board held firm, approving the section and other patriotic changes on Friday.

Muslim advocacy groups, leftist students, and hand-picked “curriculum experts” spoke out against the new changes, revealing the depth of resistance to honest education about world history.

“I feel attacked, as if my religion doesn’t belong,” Habiiba Quresh, a 15-year-old Muslim student, told the board, according to The Texas Tribune.

“I shouldn’t have to defend my religion in the middle of history class because of one sentence someone on this board wrote.”

At least three board-appointed curriculum experts also warned against the new language, demonstrating how deeply political correctness has infected even academic circles.

Andrea Hutchison, a social studies curriculum coordinator for Prosper ISD, argued the material did not “hold up to close historical scrutiny,” according to the outlet.

Robert Koons, a philosophy professor at UT-Austin, said most nonreligious scholars find the source of the claims “not very reliable,” adding that he would warn against including material that is “not based on well-established secular sources.”

The Texas chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations issued a predictable statement claiming the board’s decision to “single out and denigrate Islam, minimize the brutal realities of slavery and segregation, and entirely erase Palestinian history is an affront to our system of education and the First Amendment.”

“No credible scholar of history validates the bigoted caricatures of Islam this curriculum teaches,” CAIR Texas and CAIR Action Texas said in a joint statement.

“Even the board’s own appointed experts warned it doesn’t hold up to historical scrutiny, yet the board voted against removing it. Texas students of every background deserve an education that tells the truth about their history and their neighbors’ history, not propaganda that teaches them to see each other as threats or erases them from the story altogether.”

State Board of Education Chair Aaron Kinsey pushed back forcefully on criticism of the revised standards, saying opponents had “sensationalize[d] all these topics and [made] them seem more divisive than they actually are.”

He added that board members “worked through, democratically, how to make those choices on behalf of our constituents” and said he believed they “did an exceptional job overall.”

Republican school board member Julie Pickren celebrated the material’s final approval, recognizing it as the culmination of over a decade of work, according to Fox 7.

“This social studies law that got us here, I’ve been working on for over 10 years with the House and the Senate, the Texas House and Texas Senate … and so this is such a huge accomplishment; this vote kind of bookends 12 years of life’s work,” Pickren said.

The approved curriculum is expected to be phased into classrooms during the 2030-31 school year, giving Texas students the honest education they deserve about American history, world religions, and the threats facing our nation.

Americans deserve better than politically correct revisionist history.