Cy-Fair ISD's decision to strip chapters from books already approved by Texas' Republican-controlled board of education represents an escalation in how local school boards run by ideological conservatives influence what children learn.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2025/04/03/517633/conservatives-on-the-cy-fair-isd-school-board-escalate-fight-over-textbooks/

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Cy-Fair ISD trustees, in their latest controversial move, overwhelmingly approved a policy that requires students to use the restrooms associated with their assigned sex at birth.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/education-news/2024/11/12/505817/cy-fair-isd-board-passes-policy-restricting-bathroom-use-by-biological-sex/

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Records we obtained from Cy-Fair ISD show its board's focus on libraries came after three people with close ties to trustees Todd LeCompte and Lucas Scanlon, and LeCompte himself, accounted for 52 of the 58 book challenges in 2022-23.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/education/books-libraries/2024/10/04/502048/cy-fair-isds-focus-on-libraries-followed-flood-of-book-challenges-by-two-trustees-inner-circles/

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