The Way Texans Elect School Board Members Plays a Key Role in What Students in Diverse Districts Learn
www.propublica.org
In six Texas districts that used at-large voting systems, ideologically driven conservatives successfully helped elect school board members who have moved aggressively to ban or remove educational materials that teach children about diversity.
  • Elections: The way Texas school districts elect their board members plays a key, if often overlooked, role in whether ideologically driven conservatives win majorities.
  • Diverse Districts: In some of Texas’ most diverse school districts, board members elected via at-large voting have worked to limit instructional materials related to race.
  • Divergent Paths: After abandoning its at-large voting system in 2019, the Richardson school board became more diverse and refused to ban library books, unlike its neighbor in Keller.
  • liverbe@lemmy.world
    5·
    6 hours ago

    Except Keller is not as diverse as the article states. Wikipedia says 74% white while Richardson is 50%.

    • neoinvin@lemm.ee
      3·
      4 hours ago

      article seems to be mostly referencing the keller school district than the town. kisd spans about 9 cities, so you’d have to look at demos for all of them.

      edit: i will take this opportunity to plug books unbanned as well, an organization that provides resources to help access books for certain age ranges from libraries that believe in access to information.