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Don’t let them take over your board!

If you haven’t kept up with the chaos in Keller ISD you might want to. Hundreds of parents attended the last board meeting in opposition to the Board considering splitting the district into two, one for the rich white kids and another for the others. That’s a bit of an exaggeration but when you look at the demographics and the available resources in each new district that is what it looks like. The meeting was so bad the Superintendant threatened to resign. The decision was tabled.

This is just the latest in a series of events which started with the takeover of the Board by extremists funded by an out of district PAC, which should sound familiar to CCISD residents. Patriot Mobile PAC donated $150,000 to three extremist candidates, $45,000 each, for an election that should have cost about $5000 each. They ran as a “coalition” of “conservatives” and won with the help of two wealthy donors to a PAC called Patriot Mobile. From a previous post:

Since January 2022 Patriot Mobile PAC spent $985,385. Of that $392,000 was spent on candidates in school district races and MUDs. Each KISD candidate Walker, Young and Shaw received $45,321 for their campaigns. As I said, this is A LOT for a school race that usually costs a couple of thousand dollars. All three were elected.

Shortly afterward one of the new board members, Sandi Walker, invited a Dutch evangelical film crew to one of the high schools without permission from the school, the board, or the parents. They filmed, they aired their, and Walker resigned. Trustee Young was also involved with hundreds of parents calling for his resignation. Lawsuits may have been filed, and should have been filed.

Keller ISD is smaller than CCISD by about 10,000 students. CCISD doesn’t need to split the district. Unlike CCISD Keller is mired in fiscal mismanagement. I would bet that is one of the reasons they want to split is to push the debt onto one of the new districts.

This kind of crap is what happens when we allow outside, rich, Political Action Committees to influence our school board elections. Trustee Scott Bowen has led the effort by recruiting unqualified candidates and financing them through extremist groups like Defend Texas Liberty, a PAC funded by two evangelical billionaires out of Dallas. Defend Texas Liberty was dissolved after being caught organizing with a known white supremacist. CCISD is considering changing the school board elections so that a “coalition” of candidates could run, be funded by an outside group with huge amounts of money, and change the composition of the board to be like Keller. And Katy. And Cypress. And Spring. Keller is issuing a warning to CCISD.

Heed the warning folks.

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