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Read. Follow. Verify.Texas Requires Public High School Students to Take Modern Conflicts Course
Last action · March 11, 2025: Referred to Public EducationSponsor: Carl Tepper
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What This Bill Proposed
House Bill 1457 adds a mandatory one-half credit course on modern conflicts to the curriculum requirements, reducing elective credits from five to four and one-half. The mandate applies to students entering the ninth grade during the 2025-2026 school year or later.
Alters graduation requirements for public high school students across Texas by replacing a half-credit of general electives with a specific social studies requirement covering twentieth- and twenty-first-century geopolitical history.
Who It Would Have Affected
Groups the bill's text would have affected, as described in the record. Being affected is not a position for or against it.
public high school students
Students entering ninth grade in the 2025-2026 school year or later must complete a modern conflicts course to graduate, reducing their available general elective credits by one-half.
State Board of Education
The Board is required by rule to adopt curriculum requirements incorporating instruction on modern conflicts as specified in the statute.
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Votes, people, money & the original sourceWhere This Stands
This bill did not become law - Died at adjournment · in House committee.
Procedural history
3 actions- Mar 11, 2025HouseCommitteeReferred to Public Education
- Mar 11, 2025HouseIntroducedRead first time
- Nov 22, 2024HouseIntroducedFiled
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Analysis Score
0–100- Significance20Lowered because this bill did not pass (its text scored 65)
- Controversy45Intensity of disagreement among stakeholders
- Entertainment5Compellingness for a non-policy-wonk reader
- Buzz40Current news / social attention level
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