TX HB1927

Requires school districts and open-enrollment charter schools to adopt instructional materials for civics education that align with state-adopted essential knowledge and skills standards for social studies curriculum

Expands existing teacher protections to include instructional materials, specifying teachers cannot be compelled to use materials covering widely debated and controversial public policy or social affairs issues

Mandates that teachers who choose to use instructional materials on controversial topics must present them objectively and free from political bias

Extends prohibitions on teaching certain race and sex-based concepts to explicitly include instructional materials, barring content that teaches one race/sex is inherently superior, that individuals are inherently racist/sexist based on their race/sex, or that meritocracy is racist

Applies beginning with the 2025-2026 school year, with immediate effect if passed by two-thirds vote or September 1, 2025 otherwise