State Board of Education News

Official news releases issued on behalf of the State Board of Education are listed below.  

2024

• State Board of Education Celebrates 2024 Student Heroes (7-3-24)
• SBOE Clears Pathway for Four New Charter Schools, Recognizes Outstanding Educators and Students (7-1-24)
• SBOE Opens Public Comment for Submitted Instructional Materials in the 2024 Review and Approval Process (5-29-24)
• 30 Years of Education Excellence: Nominations Open for 2024 Heroes for Children Award (5-1-24)
• SBOE Approves Revisions to Dyslexia Handbook and Establishes Plan for Career and Technical Education Programs (4-16-24)
• The State Board of Education Unveils New Website (4-1-24)
• Nominations Open for 2024 Student Heroes Award  (2-19-24)
• SBOE Establishes Suitability Rubric for Instructional Materials Review and Adoption Process (2-5-24)
• Aaron Kinsey Appointed Chair of the Texas State Board of Education (1-29-24)

2023

• SBOE Evaluates Instructional Materials Review and Approval Process and Approves Library Collection Development Standards (12-18-23)
• SBOE Approves Instructional Materials and Explores Adopting TEKS-based Ethnic Studies Course (11-27-23)
• School Volunteers Earn SBOE’s 2023 Heroes for Children Award (9-14-23)
• Texas PSF Corporation Provides Increased Support for Public Education With Historic Distribution to the Available School Fund (9-6-23)
• State Board of Education recognizes 2023 Student Heroes (6-30-23)
• IRS Action Increases Bond Guarantee Program Capacity (5-11-23)
• Senate Confirms SBOE Chair Keven Ellis for Second Term (4-28-23)
• Nominate Volunteers for the 2023 Heroes for Children Award (4-12-23)
• Bond Guarantee Program Capacity Increases Following State Board of Education Action (4-5-23)

2022

• Nominate a student volunteer for the 2023 Student Heroes Award (12-8-22)
• State Board of Education names 2022 recipients of Heroes for Children Award (10-19-22)
• State Board of Education Recognizes 2022 Student Heroes (7-25-22)
• Keven Ellis Response to Governor Greg Abbott Re: Age-Appropriate Content in Public Schools (4-11-22)
• State Board of Education to Increase Texas History Instruction to Six Grade Levels (4-8-22)
• Nominate Volunteers for the 2022 Heroes for Children Award (3-16-22)
• Nominate a Student Volunteer for the 2022 Student Heroes Award (2-23-22)
• SBOE Receives Update on Social Studies TEKS Review (2-8-22)

2021

• Texas State Board of Education Chair Keven Ellis appoints Pam Little to serve as member of Texas Commission on Virtual Education (12-30-21) 
• SBOE close to finishing K-8 Science TEKS, which will complete Science revisions for K-12 (11-29-21) 
• SBOE Gives Final Approval to the Dyslexia Handbook: Procedures Concerning Dyslexia and Related Disorders (9-9-21)
• Texas Public School Volunteers Earn SBOE’s 2021 Heroes for Children Award (9-2-21)
• State Board of Education Recognizes Texas’s 2021 Student Heroes (7-20-21)
• SBOE Endorses Recommendations to Authorize Three New Charter School Operators (7-8-21)
• Nominate volunteers for the 2021 Heroes for Children Award (5-13-2021) 
• State Board of Education Updates Standards and Instructional Materials Review Schedule (5-3-2021)
• Keven Ellis confirmed as SBOE Chair, appointed to Education Commission of the States (4-1-2021)
• Texas State Board of Education Honors 2019 National Awardees and 2020 State Finalists for Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (3-17-2021)

2020

• SBOE Approves Revised Health Standards (11-24-2020) 
• Nominate Volunteers for the 2020 Heroes for Children Award (5-28-2020)
• SBOE approves second ethnic studies course during first-ever virtual meeting (4-22-2020)
• Six Texas teachers named finalists for the 2019 presidential awards in math and science (2-6-2020)
• SBOE gives preliminary approval to African American Studies course (1-31-2020)
• Seven organizations earn 2019 Employers for Education Excellence award (1-31-2020)

2019

• Nominate local employers for 2019 Employers for Education Excellence award (11-18-2019)
• Governor appoints Dr. Keven Ellis chair of the State Board of Education (9-16-2019)
• School volunteers earn SBOE's 2019 Heroes for Children award (9-9-2019)
• Texas Permanent School Fund wins three international awards (7-3-2019)
• SBOE gives final approval to four new charter schools (6-14-2019)
• State Board of Education recognizes 2019 Student Heroes (6-14-2019)
• Permanent School Fund named finalist for the Sovereign Wealth Fund of the Year award (4-15-2019)
• Nominate volunteers for the 2019 Heroes for Children Award (4-2-2019)
• The SBOE a good steward of fund to support Texas public schools (3-27-2019)
• Nominate a student volunteer for 2019 Student Heroes Award (2-13-2019)
• Student-designed Permanent School Fund logo unveiled (2-1-2019)
  • Winning PSF logo design
• BLGY Architecture receives Employers for Education Excellence Award (2-1-2019)
  • BLGY award photo
• Seven State Board of Education members begin new term of office (1-29-2019) 
• State Board of Education hosts free conference Jan. 30 (1-15-2019)

2016-2018

News releases issued in 2016-2018 are available on the Archived State Board of Education News Releases web page.