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ProPublica May 15, 2024

She Campaigned for a #Texas School Board Seat as a #GOP Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism.
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Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on after finding no evidence that #students were being indoctrinated by the district’s curriculum. Her defiance has brought her backlash.

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https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-granbury-isd-school-board-courtney-gore

She Campaigned for a Texas School Board Seat as a GOP Hard-Liner. Now She’s Rejecting Her Party’s Extremism.

Courtney Gore, a Granbury ISD school board member, has disavowed the far-right platform she campaigned on after finding no evidence that students were being indoctrinated by the district’s curriculum. Her defiance has brought her backlash.

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ProPublica May 15, 2024

Also from today:

Former Far-Right Hard-Liner Says Billionaires Are Using School Board Races to Sow Distrust in Public Education

https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-tim-dunn-wilks-brothers-vouchers-courtney-gore

Former Far-Right Hard-Liner Says Billionaires Are Using School Board Races to Sow Distrust in Public Education

The largesse from billionaires Tim Dunn and brothers Farris and Dan Wilks has made its way into local politics across Texas. Courtney Gore, a Republican school board member in Granbury, says it’s part of their strategy to build support for vouchers.

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@ProPublica The right wing (and especially the far right) have been ruthlessly targeting school boards, local councils and all the other base level political infrastructure for a couple of decades.

It's nice that more light is being shined on it. The lack of general political literacy and low voter turn out by the general public are making it way easier than it should be for the far right to do significant damage to society.