Today the State Board of Education heard public testimony about the error-plagued, deeply offensive Mexican American Heritage textbook proposed for Texas public schools. Tuesday morning the Texas Freedom Network helped organize a press conference featuring widely respected scholars and community advocates who called on the state board to #RejectTheText. Here’s the press release we sent out […]
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TFN 2016 Endorsement Slate: State Board of Education
The Texas Freedom Network is pleased to endorse the following candidates for the State Board of Education 2016 general election.* SBOE District 5 Rebecca Bell-Metereau (D) voterebecca.com SBOE District 6 R. Dakota Carter (D) dakotafortx.com SBOE District 9 Amanda Rudolph (D) amandarudolph.net SBOE District 10 Judy Jennings (D) judyjennings.com These candidates […]
2016 SBOE General Election Voter Guide
The Texas Freedom Network has assembled a nonpartisan voter guide to inform citizens about the positions of candidates for the State Board of Education. All information reported here was provided directly by each candidate or campaign in response to a questionnaire. The guide is divided into two categories: the state board’s authority and process, and […]
Voucher Schemers Show Their Contempt for Public Schools
Opponents of private school vouchers delivered a strong message to Texas House Public Education Committee members at a public hearing on Monday: stop trying to use tax dollars to subsidize private and religious schools at the expense of our neighborhood public schools. […]
Texas State Board of Education Must Reject This Error-Riddled, Offensive Textbook
On Tuesday the Texas Freedom Network joined a broad array of coalition partners at a rally to call on the State Board of Education to reject the error-riddled, deeply offensive Mexican American Heritage textbook submitted for adoption in Texas. TFN President Kathy Miller (speaking in the photo above) was one of the speakers at the rally just before the […]
