Posted on 03/03/2024 10:34:33 AM PST by CFW
More public-school districts are being sued for allegedly using taxpayer resources to instruct staff to vote against school choice candidates in the Republican primary election regardless if they are Republicans.
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued Huffman and Aledo independent school districts on Friday alleging they used state resources to influence political races through illegal electioneering.
This is after Paxton first sued Denton, Frisco, Denison and Castleberry ISDs within one week “for illegal electioneering by using taxpayer-funded resources” to “stump for specific candidates during an election” and/or “promote certain political candidates and policies” related to school choice.
School choice is a top issue for Republican primary voters as Gov. Greg Abbott has endorsed candidates who he believes will support his school choice bill after multiple efforts failed last year during the regular and special legislative sessions.
After a Senate school choice bill failed multiple times in the House, a House education funding bill was proposed that included a school choice amendment. Twenty-one Republicans voted to kill the amendment, which would have allocated funding for an Education Savings Account pilot program for primarily disadvantaged and minority students. Five of the 21 Republicans retired; 16 are being challenged by pro-school choice candidates endorsed by Abbott and others.
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There was a time when I thought that schools were closed on election day in order for the schools to be used as polling places. Then I realized they were closed so that the teachers could go and campaign for Democrats. When I lived in Maryland, which was definitely going to vote Democrat, teachers used to go to nearby neighboring states to get out The Vote, etc.
Article from two days ago on the first lawsuits:
https://www.thecentersquare.com/texas/article_f46ac0c2-d7ff-11ee-8f93-eb850c7f8db0.html
Perp walk these handcuffed school district administrators around their respective towns a few times.
TX House Speaker: “Oh noes! We gotta impeach him again!”
Public “schools” need to be election-free zones.
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