The Official Greg Abbott is Doing Awesome Thread

[Winehole23]

Abbott wants to throttle funds for public schools in Texas, while giving private schools $1B

Gov. Greg Abbott won his campaign to give taxpayer money to private schools. Now he's promising to starve public schools of the funds they need to compete.

The governor promised to push through laws to make it almost impossible for school districts to raise taxes. In announcing his run for a record fourth term, he also said voters should have the power to reduce or eliminate school funding entirely.

Abbott is aligning himself with the most reactionary members of his Republican Party. For decades, fringe conservatives have wanted to end government-run schools and send every child to private ins utions run by clerics or ideologues under the banner of parental choice.

https://www.statesman.com/business/columnists/tomlinson/article/texas-abbott-public-schools-private-21168431.php

[Winehole23]

Pushing ideological clubs in Texas public schools

Texas has launched a partnership with Turning Point USA to create chapters of the right-wing organization on every high school campus in the state.


Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and Turning Point USA Senior Director Josh Thifault revealed the initiative during a news conference at the Governor’s Mansion on Monday. They did not outline any plans that would require schools to initiate the clubs, but Abbott said that he expects “meaningful disciplinary action” to take place against “any stoppage of TPUSA in the great state of Texas.”


“Let me be clear: Any school that stands in the way of a Club America program in their school should be reported immediately to the Texas Education Agency,” the governor said, referring to the name of the high school clubs.

https://www.texastribune.org/2025/12...-high-schools/

[Blake]

Pushing ideological clubs in Texas public schools

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Against Texas law to do that but that's where we're at these days.

And oh yeah.... "Two months earlier, a new state law banned student clubs in public schools based on sexual orientation or gender iden y."

https://www.expressnews.com/opinion/...s-21223685.php

^ good read from a professor at UT

[Winehole23]

I don't recall having state imposed ideological youth cadres in schools during wokism

[Winehole23]

(I guess that's necessary now to combat wrongheaded social mores)

[Winehole23]

Texas vouchers weaponized for religious and anti-Chinese bigotry

Texas acting Comptroller Kelly Han is seeking to block certain schools from the state’s new private school voucher program, alleging they have ties to the Chinese government and to a Muslim advocacy group that Gov. Greg Abbott recently declared a terrorist organization.

Han has not named the schools or said how many may be impacted. But in a letter this month to Attorney General Ken Paxton he asked whether he could disqualify applicants that are “based at an address that have hosted publicly advertised events” organized by the Council of American-Islamic Relations, the largest Muslim civil rights group in the nation.

He raised concern about another school that “may be owned or controlled by a holding group” linked to the Chinese government.

“The people of Texas deserve the highest assurance that no taxpayer dollars will be used, directly or indirectly, to support ins utions with ties to a foreign terrorist organization, a transnational criminal network, or any adversarial foreign government,” Han wrote on Dec. 12, asking for an expedited ruling on whether the schools should be excluded.

While an attorney general’s opinion is not legally binding, the state could use it to justify barring schools from the program

https://www.expressnews.com/politics...s-21257343.php