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Red States Struggling To Deliver On Promises Of Pro-American History In Public Schools

Iowa and Oklahoma are delivering voters the opposite of the history curriculum improvements they voted for, while Texas and Wyoming hang in the balance.

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Republican-controlled Iowa, Texas, Oklahoma, and Wyoming are revising social studies curricula for K-12 public schools, promising voters accurate, non-leftist revisions.

Yet Iowa recently delivered new K-12 curricula that entrench rather than solve the nationwide crisis of fact-challenged, anti-American Marxists controlling publicly financed history instruction. Oklahoma is one public comment period away from a similar outcome. That public comment closes Wednesday.

The other two states are struggling to avoid the same fate. Meanwhile, decades of politicized education are causing children across the country to leave school to protest following U.S. immigration laws, an echo of the mass 2020 race riots.

A Feb. 17 report on civics education from the America First Policy Institute underscores the existential threat poor history instruction poses to the American way of life. It notes recent surveys of America’s youngest generation find two in five don’t express “pride in being an American” and only half oppose political violence. A 2024 survey found fewer than half of adult Americans can name most of the rights the First Amendment protects and one-third could not name all three branches of government — a fourth-grade-level fact.

“The United States is in the midst of a crisis of cultural disintegration marked by a loss of shared understanding of, and attachment to, its civic inheritance,” the report says. “This crisis is evident in declining patriotism and trust in institutions, and in rising support for political radicalism and violence.”

On the most recent national civics exam, 77 percent of American eighth graders scored below “proficient,” and most did not have a civics class in eighth grade. Three in five adult Americans can’t pass a basic civics exam, yet nearly all are eligible to vote. To address this crisis most Republican-controlled states task the same leftist bureaucrats whose control of American education created the crisis in the first place.

Iowa Ed Bureaucrats Defy New State Law

In 2024, Iowa’s legislature passed a law requiring the state board of education to revamp K-12 history curriculum guidelines, known as “standards.” It demanded the resulting rewrite be “the best in America.”

Iowa’s Department of Education tasked a prominent diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) advocate to coordinate the rewrite, as The Federalist reported in 2025. The new curriculum map Iowa’s State Board of Education approved last month failed to fulfill Iowa voters’ desire and the........

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