The Southlake, Texas, Carroll Independent School District’s executive director of curriculum and instruction, Gina Peddy, directed teachers this month who have a Holocaust book in their classroom to provide students a book with an “opposing … perspective.” A staff member recorded Peddy instructing teachers to “remember the concepts of [House Bill 3979].”

The new bill instructs teachers who “discuss current events or widely debated and currently controversial issues” to do so “from diverse and contending perspectives without giving deference to any one perspective.”