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Texas · Through 89th 2nd Called Legislative Session, 2025

Tex. Education Code § 26.010: EXEMPTION FROM INSTRUCTION.

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  1. EDUCATION CODE
  2. TITLE 2. PUBLIC EDUCATION
  3. SUBTITLE E. STUDENTS AND PARENTS
  4. CHAPTER 26. PARENTAL RIGHTS AND RESPONSIBILITIES

(a) A parent is entitled to remove the parent's child temporarily from a class or other school activity that conflicts with the parent's religious or moral beliefs if the parent presents or delivers to the teacher of the parent's child a written statement authorizing the removal of the child from the class or other school activity. A parent is not entitled to remove the parent's child from a class or other school activity to avoid a test or to prevent the child from taking a subject for an entire semester.

(b) This section does not exempt a child from satisfying grade level or graduation requirements in a manner acceptable to the school district and the agency.

Added by Acts 1995, 74th Leg., ch. 260, Sec. 1, eff. May 30, 1995.

Collected 2026-08-27T01:47:05Z. Source file · JSON

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