Texas guts ‘woke civics’. Now kids can't engage in a key democratic process

Many states have restricted how schools can teach race and gender, but only Texas has banned student interaction with elected officialsThe defining experience of Jordan Zamora-Garcia’s high school career – a hands-on group project in civics class that spurred a new city ordinance in his Austin suburb – would now violate Texas law.Since Texas lawmakers in 2021 passed a ban on lessons teaching that any one group is “inherently racist, sexist or oppressive”, a little-n