Texas State Board of Education rejects conservative-backed Heritage Classical Academy charter school for third time

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Two Republicans joined Democrats to veto the charter school application, including a Republican board member who lost reelection to a candidate endorsed by a PAC with financial ties to Heritage’s board chair.

. Members voted 8 to 6 on Friday to deny its application after a lengthy debate on the issue the day before.

and not limited to individuals. It has become a catch-all phrase for conservatives worried about discussions and lessons about race in public secondary schools.Two conservative candidates backed by the Freedom Foundation of Texas PAC won their Republican primaries in March: LJ Francis and Aaron Kinsey, who defeated Johnson. The PAC has also supported Will Hickman, Republican member from Houston, who made a last minute plea in support of the charter.

Robinson, a Republican from Friendswood, questioned Saunders' ethics, saying it seemed that he was trying to remake the board after his charter was denied before.Saunders in response said he wasn’t involved in where donations went. “Clearly you want to defend your member and that's okay, I understand, but that’s very telling to me,” Cortez said on Wednesday. “You guys have been here … every time you've had an opportunity to fix anything that could have seemed just out of bounds for some of us, each time you all come back and it just seems like you'd dig a deeper hole.”

 

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