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 officials

The 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-noticed provision of that legislation has triggered a massive fallout for civics education across the state.