The long-awaited vote survived objections from the panel's most right-leaning Republicans, who criticized the lessons as "un-American woke indoctrination."

Officials in Kerrville are asking people to limit travel as search and recovery efforts continue following deadly flooding. KERA's Marcheta Fornoff reports members of Fort Worth country singer Pat Green’s family are among those unaccounted for following the floods. Gaines County, where the West Texas measles outbreak was first identified, is no longer a designated outbreak county, according to the Texas Department of State Health Services. Our Samantha Larned says Lamar County is the only remaining outbreak area.