 Today is Día de los Muertos, a holiday observed on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border to remember loved ones lost, and it is part of my heritage as a Mexican-American.
Will Texas school children, many of whom can trace their families to Mexico and other Latin American countries, learn about this day and other aspects of their heritage in our schools? They may not if the highly inaccurate and deeply offensive Mexican-American studies textbook under consideration by the Texas State Board of Education gets into their classrooms.
That's why it's critical that you make one final push to convince the board to #RejectTheText! The SBOE is set to hold its final hearing on the textbook onTuesday, Nov. 15, followed by an up or down vote later that same week.
You can do two things to help us defeat this textbook:
We'll keep you posted on how to sign up to testify, so look for an email about it next week.
On behalf of the
Responsible Ethnic Studies Textbook Coalition,
Val Benavidez
REST Coalition
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This blog on Texas education contains posts on accountability, testing, K-12 education, postsecondary educational attainment, dropouts, bilingual education, immigration, school finance, environmental issues, Ethnic Studies at state and national levels. It also represents my digital footprint, of life and career, as a community-engaged scholar in the College of Education at the University of Texas at Austin.
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