April 2025 Ad Hoc Committee on Social Studies
THURSDAY
April 10, 2025
1:00 p.m.
AD HOC COMMITTEE ON SOCIAL STUDIES - Room 2.034 (Barbara Jordan Building)
Members: Aaron Kinsey, chair; Marisa Perez-Diaz; Julie Pickren; and Audrey Young. A quorum of the State Board of Education may attend the committee meeting and discuss items on the committee agenda.
Public testimony – Individual testimony will be taken at the time the related item comes up for committee discussion or action. The procedures for public testimony at State Board of Education committee meetings and general board meetings are provided in SBOE Operating Rules.
A public hearing before the Ad Hoc Committee on Social Studies Standards Framework is scheduled for Thursday, April 10, 2025. Testimony will be presented regarding recommendations for a framework to guide the organization of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for social studies, including the identification of core content topics that students should know and be able to do in U.S. history, Texas history, world history, geography and civics in Kindergarten - Grade 12. In accordance with State Board of Education (SBOE) operating procedures, oral testimony will be limited to two minutes per person. Statutory authority is the Texas Education Code (TEC), §§7.102(c)(4), 28.002(a)(1)(D), and 28.002(c).
COMMITTEE - DISCUSSION
SBOE - NO ACTION