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• Texas HB 6 Gives Teachers More Power to Remove Students. What Parents Can Still Challenge.
• The Parent Volunteer Trap: How Texas Schools Use Mom Labor to Fill Budget Gaps—and How That Unpaid Work Shapes Who Has Power in the Building
• Your Child's AI Tutor Has a Worldview: How Generative AI Tools Entering Texas Classrooms Handle Questions About Democracy, Religion, and Civic Controversy
• Homeschool-to-Public Pipeline: What Civic Knowledge Gaps Exist When Texas Students Re-Enter Public Schools After Years of Unregulated Home Education
• The Road Ahead: Mapping the Full 2026 Texas SBOE Calendar and the Big Policy Fights Still to Come
• The Vendor Behind the Lesson: Who Writes the Third-Party Civic and Character Curricula Texas Districts Are Buying—and What's Actually in Them
• Civic Muscle Memory: What Youth Sports, Band, and Theater Teach Texas Kids About Democratic Norms—Collaboration, Dissent, Fairness—That Social Studies Class Often Doesn't
• The Digital Civics Desert: Evaluating the Apps, Platforms, and Online Tools Texas Schools Use to Teach Government—and the Corporate and Ideological Interests Behind Them
• Shadow Curriculum: How Texas School Assemblies, Guest Speakers, and 'Character Education' Programs Introduce Religious and Political Content Through the Side Door
• What Does an Inclusive Classroom Actually Look Like? Profiles of Five Texas Teachers Doing It Well
• From Boardroom to Classroom: How Revised TEKS Standards Will Actually Change Day-to-Day Teaching in Texas
• Texas Board Poised to Finalize New K–12 Social Studies Standards: What's In and What's Out