{"id":264623,"date":"2026-04-24T17:13:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264623\/"},"modified":"2026-04-24T17:13:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:13:07","slug":"tea-launches-investigation-into-austin-isd-pride-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/264623\/","title":{"rendered":"TEA launches investigation into Austin ISD Pride Week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is investigating the Austin Independent School District over its annual Pride Week celebration that took place in March, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.statesman.com\/news\/education\/article\/austin-isd-texas-education-agency-pride-week-22222188.php\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Austin American-Statesman confirmed this week<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Statesman\u2019s report, TEA didn\u2019t expand on the specifics of the investigation, which officials said is ongoing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Austin ISD\u2019s Pride Week celebration is a way to \u201chighlight the district&#8217;s commitment to creating a safe, supportive and inclusive environment for all,\u201d the district\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.austinisd.org\/respectforall\/pride\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">website<\/a> says.<\/p>\n<p>It was held from March 23-27 this year and the theme was \u201cbeYOUtiful.\u201d Activities included wacky socks day and a \u201cmix it up\u201d lunch where students are encouraged to sit with new people and \u201ccelebrate our diverse community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The district says it celebrates Pride Week in March due to National Pride Week and Austin Pride celebrations being held in the summer when students are not in school.<\/p>\n<p>Austin ISD told the Statesman that TEA had notified the district of the investigation.<\/p>\n<p>The district has celebrated Pride Week for the past 12 years, the Statesman reports.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation comes as diversity, equity and inclusion measures in education and government have been under increased scrutiny in the second Trump administration and the Republican-led state of Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"AUSTIN, Texas \u2014 The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is investigating the Austin Independent School District over its annual&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264624,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[836,132,134,133,5604,1226,163,223,27],"class_list":{"0":"post-264623","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-austin","8":"tag-app-education","9":"tag-austin","10":"tag-austin-headlines","11":"tag-austin-news","12":"tag-austin-what-you-need-to-know","13":"tag-christine-sanchez","14":"tag-education","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-texas"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264623","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264623"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264623\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264624"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264623"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264623"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264623"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}