Ask your Board of Education member to support Mexican-American studies in Texas schools
Texas State Board of Education members
The contributions of Mexican-Americans to the history of Texas and our nation too often get poor coverage in public school classrooms.
The State Board of Education can change that. Add your name to a petition calling SBOE members to add Mexican-American Studies course to the state curriculum.
Petition by
To:
Texas State Board of Education members
From:
[Your Name]
Dear SBOE Members,
From El Paso to Corpus Christi and the Rio Grande to Amarillo, Mexican-American history has helped shape Texas. In fact, Hispanic students today make up a rapidly growing majority of our state’s public school enrollment.
Now the State Board of Education has an opportunity to embrace our diversity and show that teaching Mexican-American studies is teaching about Texas.
The state curriculum already includes hundreds of elective courses, including classes on topics like floral design and Web games. Surely there is room for an elective course on the contributions Hispanics have made to the history and cultural mosaic of Texas and the rest of the United States. And let’s begin a discussion about elective courses on how African-Americans, women and others have also shaped our history and culture.
But it makes sense to start with Mexican-American Studies in Texas. So please vote to add this elective course to the state curriculum.