Tell SBOE: Don’t Erase 250 years of History! Tomorrow at 8 a.m. Registration Opens for Public Testimony on the Social Studies standards at the Texas State Board of Education! Sign up and let your voice be heard to preserve our American and Texas heritage! The SBOE will be taking public testimony on the most recent draft of the Social Studies TEKS next Monday, June 22. You must register in advance in order to speak. The deadline to register is Friday, June 19, at 5p.m. Sign up here to testify on Monday, June 22 , Agenda Item 2 on Social Studies: https://sboe.texas.gov/.../public-testimony-registration . You can also submit written testimony to this address: Testimony@sboe.texas.gov BUT we need as many as possible to show up in person!

Please reach out to your Texas House member, as well as the members of the House State Affairs Committee and thank them for the having a committee hearing on these bills and thank them for helping move these bills out of committee and to the next step for a full Texas House vote! Again – these bills are: (1) SB 8 – Texas Women’s Privacy Act (already passed the Texas Senate), and (2) HB 7 – Pro-Life Act that protects women from harmful chemical abortion drugs that are flooding into our state in the mail! Please be courteous on the call and express your thanks for last week’s hearing and for voting these bills forward!

🚨 𝐋𝐚𝐬𝐭 𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐟𝐲 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐤𝐞 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐨𝐧 𝐊-𝟏𝟐 𝐒𝐨𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐞𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬 𝐚𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐓𝐞𝐱𝐚𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐁𝐨𝐚𝐫𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐄𝐝𝐮𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 (𝐒𝐁𝐎𝐄) 🚨 In two weeks, the Texas State Board of Education (SBOE) will make a historic vote that will impact K-12 Texas students for years to come. 𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐤 𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐬𝐞 𝐤𝐞𝐲 𝐝𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐬𝐡𝐨𝐰 𝐮𝐩 𝐨𝐧 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟐𝟐! • Registration for testimony opens June 16, at 8a.m. • Registration closes on June 19 at 5p.m. • If you have formal comments on the published standards from April, the deadline to submit comments is Monday June 15! • Email the SBOE before the final vote on June 26! Learn more about how you can make a difference!

Next Week, the Texas State Board of Education will have their First Reading and vote on the Social Studies standards for Texas students in grades K-12. Please sign up to testify for the meeting on April 7, at 8 a.m. to ensure that Texas students are educated to have a healthy appreciation for Texas and America. Registration closes Friday April 3 at 5 p.m.

Show up to Austin ISD Board meeting on March 26 at 6p.m. and ask for Good Friday to be reinstated. Keep your kids home on April 3, for religious observance of Good Friday!