Attorney General Ken Paxton on Saturday partially sided with acting Comptroller Kelly Hancock in his push to ban some private schools from the state’s new voucher program over alleged terrorism or foreign ties.

Paxton confirmed in a non-binding opinion that the state comptroller “unambiguously” has the authority to block or remove schools from the program if they violate other state laws, including the support of transnational criminal networks or terrorist activity.

  • pelespirit@sh.itjust.worksOPM
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    8 days ago

    Texas, do you think this is cool? This means that if you go against the administration in any way, your school will lose funding. Don’t fool yourself into thinking that you’ll be safe from this for any reason. You might be, but I doubt it.

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    7 days ago

    To quote an ICE agent talking to a woman who was legally filming him: “Because we have a nice little database. And now you’re considered a domestic terrorist.”

    If a teacher at one of those schools gets put in the database, then the school will have to fire them. If parents get put in the database, then their kids risk expulsion. Schools will be just the start, the persecution of the undesirables will continue to escalate (history repeats itself).