AHA program and data analyst Whit Barringer was quoted in an article in El Paso Matters on the efforts to limit the teaching of Mexican American history in the proposed TEKS recommendations. She said that the recommendations are less diverse than the current standards, narrowing the scope of the content students are taught. At the same time, the proposed curriculum is packed with more content as a means to “replace teacher autonomy with state control of curriculum. All Texans should be concerned that the SBOE has so thoroughly designed a process that can create a framework and key topics — which determine what TEKS the work groups are allowed to write — so out of touch with the needs of a diverse, twenty-first century Texas,” Barringer said.
