The group offered conventional field trips to parks and museums, but also trips to skydiving centers, pickleball complexes, and water parks like Great Wolf Lodge.
The ruling represents a loss for four school districts, three charter schools, and a public education cooperative.
Families are wondering what they’ll do if programs don’t open, said the head of a bilingual outdoor education program for homeschoolers.
“Anyone can be a Monday morning quarterback, but I am proud of ERBOCES,” said one District 49 board member.
“I interpret the lack of suitors to be a collective, statewide referendum on ERBOCES, and their dissolution is therefore correct,” said one board member.
“I viewed a lot of stuff about Texas and Houston and San Antonio and migrant workers, and Texas and Texas,” said one school board member.
The ruling invalidates a school board appointment and a 2025 agreement that allowed the opening of a ‘public Christian school.’
“There was an agreement signed in 2013 that I feel compelled to honor,” said Lance Bolton, the president of Pikes Peak State College.
“Our schools will not use the curriculum as a vehicle for religious instruction,” wrote Eddie Ramirez, superintendent of the Montezuma-Cortez district.
The Bluebonnet curriculum has drawn fierce criticism from some Texas parents and religious scholars.