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# Former Far-Right Hard-Liner Says Billionaires Are Targeting Texas Public Education
- URL: https://werd.io/former-far-right-hard-liner-says-billionaires-are-targeting-texas-public-education/
- Published: 2024-05-15T13:56:50.000Z
- Updated: 2024-05-15T13:56:50.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: NotableLinks, #Import 2025-06-13 09:20

"When Courtney Gore ran for a seat on her local school board in 2021, she warned about a movement to indoctrinate children with “leftist” ideology. After 2 1/2 years on the board, Gore said she believes a much different scheme is unfolding: an effort by wealthy conservative donors to undermine public education in Texas and install a voucher system in which public money flows to private and religious schools."

An interesting ProPublica story about the motivation behind some of the money that's funded these bizarre right-wing school board elections. It's not so much about the ideology as it is about undermining trust in public education itself, so that it can be replaced with a voucher system that would benefit the underwriters.

This quote says it all:

“It’s all about destroying the trust with the citizens to the point where they would tolerate something like doing away with public schools.” [#Education](https://werd.io/tag/Education)

\[[Link](https://www.propublica.org/article/texas-tim-dunn-wilks-brothers-vouchers-courtney-gore)\]