Some Of The Most Important Texas Elections in 2024

Curriculum and Control: The Fight for Texas' Classrooms

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The Republican war on education started in 1983 under the Ronald Reagan presidency. Reagan used education as a political strategy to erode the foundation of public education. Then, George Dubya Bush further pushed the Reagan agenda with “No Child Left Behind.” The trajectory of educational policy under Republican leadership created a culture of “teaching to the test” and neglecting the needs of individual students.

With Texas under Republican rule for the last three decades, education has been one area that has consistently struggled. Whether it’s Republicans refusing to fund education and give teachers a pay raise or attacking science and history, the overall goal of our right-wing counterparts has seemed to be to keep them dumb and keep them voting red.

After all of these years, their strategy is finally paying off.