This is bad. The state board is full of the worst conservative ghouls imaginable, the very same people who rewrote history textbooks to say workers instead of slaves. Houston ISD has over 200,000 students.
This is bad. The state board is full of the worst conservative ghouls imaginable, the very same people who rewrote history textbooks to say workers instead of slaves. Houston ISD has over 200,000 students.
The key to understanding conservatives views on education is that they tend to dislike public schools in general but they like their own schools specifically. Where I live, conservatives (those with kids at least, this doesn't apply to older ones) will actually be OK with tax increases to improve their own school district. But they still like to rail against public schools as a concept. This is why these voucher and charter programs always seem to happen in predominantly poor and minority-majority districts. The conservatives don't want to touch their own schools so this get forcibly placed on those schools.
(There's also religious conservatives who want to see public schools broken up so it's easier for them to send their kids to religious indoctrination schools, but I don't think they're a majority even among religious conservatives).