ProPublica , to random
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She Campaigned for a #Texas School Board Seat as a #GOP Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism.

Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on after finding no evidence that #students were being indoctrinated by the district’s curriculum. Her defiance has brought her backlash.

New, from @JeremySchwartz

#Dallas #Education #School #News #Republicans #SchoolBoard #Teachers #Books #Libraries

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore

Nonilex , to random
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WTAF??

school board restores leaders’ names to 2
The change comes 4 years after the schools had removed the names during the national racial reckoning sparked by ’s killing.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2024/05/10/shenandoah-county-school-board-confederate-school-names/

Nonilex OP ,
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A board voted to restore the names of 2 schools previously named after leaders at a meeting that began Thurs evening & stretched into the early hours of Friday.
The voted 5-1 to call the schools HS & , 4 yrs after the board — under different members — changed the names of the institutions due to their ties to Confederate ldrs Stonewall Jackson, & .

Nonilex , to random
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, [is] a -based whose mission is to “restore our Constitutional Republic” & the “Biblical principles that cause” the “to thrive.”
The ’s classes were tapping into a growing among some that their faith & what they saw as its rightful place at the center of culture & govt were under siege.


https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/03/17/patriot-academy-biblical-citizenship-school-board/

Nonilex OP ,
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The classes urged participants to run for local office, especially , & to fight back against the “secular leftists” & “Marxists” in their country & communities. In Nov, Wenhold won a seat on the Palisades School Board. The position was unpaid, but it gave her a little bit of power. She wanted to use it to make sure students…were taught ’s “true history” as a nation, as she had come to understand it.

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