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Judy Jennings for State Board of Education District 10

Democratic Primary, March 2, 2010

“In effect, [Republican incumbent Cythina] Dunbar is on the board to sabotage public education. ... Dunbar should resign and leave the governing of this state's public schools to people who use them, serve them, care about them and understand that they are the future of Texas.”

—Austin American-Statesman editorial 12/15/08

Cynthia Dunbar on ...

Public education: “One need not wonder long why the enemy chose such a subtly deceptive tool of perversion.”

—One Nation Under God, p. 109

Political moderates: “The Scriptures ... place these lukewarm persons on the side of evil .... Though they constitute the majority in our culture, God promises to spew them out of His mouth.”

—One Nation Under God, p. 111

‘Culture war’: “We are fighting a culture war, and I have news for all the pastors and church members who have refused to get down and dirty in the trenches: The battle lines are drawn along party lines.”

—One Nation Under God, p. 24

More quotations from the Houston Chronicle

Our State Board of Education is failing Texas schoolchildren

Unlike incumbent Cynthia Dunbar, Sam Houston saw public education as a great boon. “No longer will the means of elementary learning be limited to those whose private resources are equal to the expense, but the road to distinction in every department of science and moral excellency, will be equally open to all,” he said. And the founders of Texas considered education so essential to “the rights and liberties of the people” that they charged our Legislature with establishing “an efficient system of public free schools” in our Constitution.

The Legislature, in turn, created the State Board of Education to set policy for public education in Texas. But lately, some board members have acted so irresponsibly that the Legislature actually considered stripping the board of many of its duties. The problem: too many members caught up in fighting “culture wars” at the expense of figuring out how to provide our children with an education that will prepare them for the challenges of this new century.

What would you do if your local school board trustee cared more about pursuing a personal agenda rather than seeing to the needs of your child's school? It's hard to imagine such a trustee getting re-elected in any school district in Texas, let alone the eighty-four ISDs that fall, in whole or in part, within the boundaries of SBOE District 10.

We need board members who will be guided by effective measures of what's working, not by ideology, pet peeves or partisanship. Dr. Judy Jennings will be just such a board member, well equipped to make important decisions about meeting the many needs of a diverse and growing state. Read more about Judy here.

The Texas Constitution:
“A general diffusion of knowledge being essential to the preservation of the liberties and rights of the people, it shall be the duty of the Legislature of the State to establish and make suitable provision for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools.”

—Constitution of the State of Texas, Article 7, Section 1

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