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Texas' taxpayer-funded universities have increasingly sided with the radical left. Will the Texas Legislature rein them in?

Here is the Texas Minute for Monday, March 21, 2022.

– Brandon Waltens

As Texans grapple with the left-wing takeover of the public K-12 schools, Texas universities have made it clear where they stand. Parents and taxpayers, however, are expressing refusal to fund the indoctrination of American youth.

Last month the “faculty Senate” at the University of Texas in Austin passed a resolution [[link removed]], claiming the principle of “academic freedom” to defend the teaching of critical race theory at the institution. The theory is the hotly contentious racist ideology that teaches students are inherently inferior or superior and should be punished or promoted because of the color of their skin.

The Texas Legislature ostensibly banned [[link removed]] the practice of teaching CRT in public schools for K-12 students last summer, although the effectiveness of the legislation remains to be seen [[link removed]].

Similar resolutions were also passed by the Texas A&M faculty senate as well as Prairie View A&M. After UT's stand in favor of teaching CRT, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick lashed out, saying, he would not "stand by and let looney Marxist UT professors poison the minds of young students with Critical Race Theory," adding that he would work to ban the material in Texas universities as well.

Shortly after, Patrick released a proposal to revoke the tenure [[link removed]] of college professors who teach CRT.

"Critical race theory people are trying to take us back to a divided country,” said Patrick. Far from just supporting radical CRT curriculum, just earlier this month the president of the University of North Texas sided with a liberal mob [[link removed]] against a conservative group on campus.

On March 2, the Young Conservatives of Texas at UNT hosted Jeff Younger, a Texas father who advocates for parental rights and against forcing dangerous drugs and life-altering “sex-change” surgeries onto children in the name of “gender transition.”

But when Younger arrived to speak on campus, he was greeted by a group of protestors, mostly dressed in black, who filled the classroom. They constantly shouted obscenities, heckled, screamed, and used noisemakers to try and drown him out.

Rather than support the conservative students whose event was disrupted, UNT President Neal Smatresk took the side of the mob, and underscored his “unequivocal support for the queer and trans members of the UNT community.” Texas' public universities are overseen by the Texas Legislature, both directly and through the confirmation of regents appointed by the governor. In recent years, that responsibility has been delegated largely to university administrators.

With Texans' increasingly aware of the left-wing radicalism inside our institutions of higher education, it remains to be seen if the legislature will take action to rein in Texas universities. 🔒 Donate to Texas Scorecard 🔒 [[link removed]] Number of the Day

666,130

The number of students enrolled in Texas' public universities.

[Source: Texas Higher Education Data [[link removed]]]

Today in History

On March 21, 1928, U.S. President Calvin Coolidge gave the Congressional Medal of Honor to Charles Lindbergh for his first trans-Atlantic flight.

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"The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten."

– Calvin Coolidge​

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