Pastors for Texas Children have worked with a bipartisan coalition to support public schools and stop privatization. Rural Republicans have been an important part of the coalition that has repeatedly stopped voucher legislation and slowed charters.
Big Night for Pro-Texas Public School Legislative Candidates
GOP Candidates Again Rebuke Extremist Insurgents Financed By Ultra-Right-Wing Billionaires
Candidates that support Texas public schools celebrated significant victories in the Republican primary last night. On the eve of Texas Independence Day, these incumbents declared their independence from the deep pockets of right-wing extremists that are trying to destroy your neighborhood schools. We congratulate those candidates: Stan Lambert, Ken King, David Spiller, Gary VanDeaver, Travis Clardy, Reggie Smith, Ernest Bailes, Giovanni Capriglione.
“Yesterday’s primary elections proved decisively, in the reelection of pro-public education incumbents, that Texans overwhelmingly support their neighborhood and community public schools – and oppose the privatization of them through vouchers and charters,” said Reverend Charles Foster Johnson, founder and Executive Director of Pastors for Children. “These House seats cannot be bought by a couple of right-wing billionaires, no matter how many millions they put up.”
Pastors For Children will continue the fight in the upcoming May runoffs and launch an unprecedented pro-public education campaign for the November General Election.
Pastors For Children stands firm for the belief that there is a moral obligation before God to educate every school kid in Texas. We are also strong proponents of Article 7 in the Texas Constitution, which mandates the State Legislature to support and maintain a free public school system. It is the only way for the Texas economy to continue to outpace the rest of the country.
Pastors For Children is a 501c4 that engages parents, teachers, and all Texans to fight for Texas neighborhood public schools through their votes in the ballot box.
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Thank God for those pastors and those who joined them in speaking up for public education. We need to get loud like they did! “Shout for joy to the Lord, burst into jubilant song!” Psalm 98: 4
Thanks to the Texans that voted to defend their neighborhood public schools. Thanks to Pastor Foster Johnson and the Pastors for Children for their efforts on behalf of Texas’ children.
Now that is great news. And it is an example of one of the main reasons I love this blog. Diane knows all the people who do truly noteworthy research and write with a quality lost among many, integrity. Thank you, Reverend Johnson and Dr. Ravitch.
One more battle won in a war that will last as long as the greedy racists survive.
This may be good news, but I’ll have to check with my congressman gosar to find out if I can support it.
Gosar. One of the three who voted against support for Ukraine. He’s a real piece of work, that one.
That dude is frightening, man. For his own siblings to create their PSA telling Arizonians to vote for his opponent? Makes you wonder what he is like as a father, you know? I’m quite certain there are many a Dr. William Luther Pierce IIIs out there that der Trumpenfuhrer have ignited into the public consciousness.
There was a time when conservatives in America (e.g., William Buckley) would hide their Nazi sympathies.
Pastors for Children are definitely one of the most powerful agents you can trust in democracy. So blessed to have them.
“It is the only way for the Texas economy to continue to outpace the rest of the country.”
Hmmmm. . . I thought that after the electricity brouhaha last year that Texas was hurting. Haven’t really looked into it. If anyone has please dispel my doubts about the ‘Texas Economy”. Ever since the “Texas Miracle” performed by Rod Paige. I doubt pretty much coming out of that state.
. . . pretty much everything. . .