As we learn more about recipients of new grants under the state’s Dropout Recovery Pilot Program, it’s becoming clearer that one key political winner is James Leininger. Leininger, a San Antonio physician and businessman, is the state’s biggest financial backer of private school voucher schemes and a major donor to Gov. Rick Perry’s election campaigns. On Monday […]
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More Truth-Stretching from the SBOE on Bible Classes
Texas Freedom Network has been taking fire from religious extremists on the State Board of Education for our stand on public school Bible classes. We have been very critical of the state board’s failure to adopt clear, specific curriculum standards to guide public schools in creating worthwhile, legal courses that don’t end up in court. In pieces published […]
Anti-Gay Westboro Baptist to Protest in Canada
The uber-far-right Westboro Baptist Church led by Fred Phelps never ceases to amaze: Canadian border guards are under orders to prevent members of a fundamentalist American church from crossing into Canada to protest at the Saturday funeral for a Winnipeg man brutally killed on a Greyhound bus last week. Westboro Baptist Church, a controversial Kansas-based […]
McCain and Obama on Faith
TIME has posted reflections on faith written by the two presumptive presidential candidates, Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain. McCain: [O]n Christmas Day, I was standing in the dirt courtyard when I saw that same guard approach me. He walked up and stood silently next to me, not looking or smiling at me. Then he […]
TSTA Suing TEA Over Back Door Voucher Program
Last year, the Texas House voted overwhelmingly to bar public funding for any private school voucher scheme. Apparently, Texas Education Agency Commissioner Robert Scott didn’t get the memo. Recently, TEA adopted a dropout prevention plan that would allow the agency “to fund nonprofit groups as an alternative [to public schools] to educate dropouts.” Since Commissioner […]
