The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is considering what titles to add to a required reading list for grades K-12.

During a State Board of Education meeting last Wednesday, Nov. 19, the Deputy Commissioner of School Programs, Shannon Trejo, presented the current progress of the required reading list.

House Bill 1605 passed in 2023, requiring new book, vocabulary, and social studies lists of the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) for kindergarteners through 12th grade. This change will make Texas the first state to have a government-mandated reading list.

Trejo said in the meeting that titles were being decided first by consulting several reading lists from national, state and successful education systems.

The next step was to cross-reference the lists and eliminate those that were

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