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Do you know who your member of the State Board of Education is? Do you want to? Does it matter? That’s the subject of today’s One Click Survey.



Here is today's Texas Minute for Tuesday, March 29, 2022.

– Michael Quinn Sullivan

Runoff Candidates on Protecting Women’s Sports With 34 Republican candidates in the May runoff elections for the state legislature, Texas Scorecard asked [[link removed]] for their stance on protections for women’s collegiate athletics.

Last year, the Texas Legislature passed a bill to prohibit biological male students from competing in designated women’s athletic contests at public schools. Under pressure from the NCAA, the Republican-led Texas House refused to extend the protections to college female athletes, despite some lawmakers’ best attempts.

In their own words [[link removed]], see which legislative runoff candidates did – and did not – offer their thoughts on this issue. AISD Concludes Gay Pride Week With Drag Queen Show Texas Scorecard has previously reported about last week’s “gay pride” activities sponsored by the Austin Independent School District that included exhortations from teachers not to share any of the materials with parents.

To finish off the week, AISD hosted a districtwide party Saturday morning featuring scantily clad drag queen performances, “pride” paraphernalia (including “pronoun buttons”), and LGBT organization booths promoting even further deviant sexual behavior and gender confusion instruction in school curriculums. Jacob Asmussen has the details [[link removed]].

Meanwhile, numbers generated by the Texas Education Agency show [[link removed]] Austin ISD’s ability to teach math and reading to children – particularly the district’s economically disadvantaged [[link removed]] students – is failing.

Normalizing deviancy is what the leftist indoctrination in our schools is all about. School Board Stonewalls Parents Over Sexually Explicit Books

For the second time in two months, parents filled a McKinney school board meeting and pled with trustees to address their concerns about library books containing sexually explicit content. Once again, reports Erin Anderson [[link removed]], those parents left disappointed.

“An overwhelming majority of the parents I spoke to at the meeting expressed their anger, disgust, and disappointment that the McKinney ISD board of trustees would continue to allow minor children to be exposed to pornography,” McKinney resident Dan Porzio told Texas Scorecard. “To put it mildly, they were not impressed with the actions of the board.”

Officials in districts like Granbury ISD [[link removed]] and Fredericksburg ISD [[link removed]] have addressed parents’ concerns and taken action to review and remove library books that are obscene, “pervasively vulgar,” or educationally unsuitable—following a legal policy on library materials common to all Texas school districts. Lindale 42nd City To Ban Abortions By a unanimous vote of the city council, Lindale became the first city whose council passed the measure in response to a successful citizen initiative petition to ban abortions. Mark Lee Dickson has the story [[link removed]].

The Lindale City Council rejected its citizens’ initial request to outlaw abortion in February 2020, passing a non-binding resolution that “condemned abortion” instead of passing an ordinance to actually “outlaw abortion.” After seeing cities like Waskom and Lubbock survive lawsuits, Lindale resident Janna Moore was convinced that Lindale must revisit the issue. Believing the city council wouldn’t act, Moore decided it was time for the citizen initiative process allowed for by their city charter.

Signatures were collected and certified, proving local support, and the council opted to pass the ordinance outright. Quote-Unquote

“A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation of the liberties and rights of the people, it shall be the duty of the Legislature of the State to establish and make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools.”

– Texas Constitution, Article 7​, Sec. 1 [[link removed]]

Number of the Day

15

The number of members of the State Board of Education. They are elected from districts established by the Texas Legislature in accordance with the state constitution.

[Source: Texas Education Agency [[link removed]]]

ONE CLICK SURVEY

For almost as long as we have been publishing the Texas Minute, the bottom of most editions has listed the names and contact information for the state executive and legislative officials on your ballot, as well as your representative in the U.S. House and Senate. (As an aside, this is why we ask for your home address, so we can display that information.)

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Your State & Federal Officials

The districts displayed here should reflect those recently redrawn by the Legislature. Though the new lines do not take representational effect until 2023, they will appear on the 2022 ballot. Please note that your incumbent legislator and/or district numbers may have changed.

​ U.S. Senator [[link removed]]

John Cornyn - R

(202) 224-2934

U.S. Senator [[link removed]]

Ted Cruz - R

(202) 224-5922

Governor of Texas [[link removed]]

Greg Abbott - R

(512) 463-2000

Lt. Governor [[link removed]]

Dan Patrick - R

(512) 463-0001

Attorney General [[link removed]]

Ken Paxton – R

(512) 463-2100

Comptroller [[link removed]]

Glenn Hegar – R

(512) 463-4600

Land Commissioner [[link removed]]

George Bush – R

(512) 463-5001

Commissioner of Agriculture [[link removed]]

Sid Miller – R

(512) 463-7476

Railroad Commissioners [[link removed]]

Wayne Christian – R

Christy Craddick – R

Jim Wright – R

(512) 463-7158

U.S. House [[link removed]], District

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Speaker of the Texas House

Dade Phelan (R)

(512) 463-1000

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