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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 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, 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.
         
• Meanwhile, numbers generated by the Texas Education Agency show Austin ISD’s ability to teach math and reading to children – particularly the district’s economically disadvantaged 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, 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 and Fredericksburg ISD 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.
   
• 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. 

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.)

Given the growing problems in Texas public schools, should we also also list your elected State Board of Education member?

Once you’ve clicked an answer, reply to this email with any thoughts you’d like to share!