NEW: School board wars over Covid protocols, racism and gender — and millions in campaign donations — have “softened the ground” for private school vouchers in Texas. As a result, public school funding is on the ballot Tuesday, political observers say.
. Until recently, public funding for private Christian schooling had seemed out of reach in Texas, blocked by an unlikely coalition of Democrats opposed to vouchers on ideological grounds and rural Republican lawmakers who worried that siphoning funding from public education would hurt cash-strapped, small-town school districts.growing Republican embrace of ideas rooted in Christian nationalism
“In their view, what kids learn and the history that they learn is so important, because that is a key aspect that undergirds them, believing that the U.S. is a Christian nation,” Whitehead said. “For these folks, being able to ensure that parents are going to receive state support to send their kids to religious academies allows them to ensure that they can continue to have an influence over the way these things are taught.
On a call with Texas pastors in September, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick cited the discovery of "pornographic books" in public school libraries — referring to books with descriptions of sex and LGBTQ themes — as one reason that parents should be allowed to use public money to send their children to private school.
Similar efforts in Texas have fallen short, in part because of a law that requires the state to take money from school systems with higher property values and redistribute it to poorer districts. Rural Republicans have long argued that, under that provision, their communities would lose public school funding under a voucher program, and — with few private school options in rural Texas — get little or nothing in return.
In an apparent effort to shore up support ahead of Election Day, Patrick, the lieutenant governor, suggested in a radio interview this week that rural communities would be shielded from funding cuts under a voucher program.Patrick said on “The Chad Hasty Show
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