by Joshua Houston | Oct 3, 2023 | Education, Latest Posts, Religious Freedom
Over the weekend, Texas Impact staff and board members attended the annual TASA/TASB joint-convention, which more than 3500 school board trustees and superintendents attended. Like a number of our pro-public education advocacy partners, Texas Impact board members and...
by Bee Moorhead | Sep 29, 2023 | Education, Latest Posts, Religious Freedom
Texas Impact’s new brief “Chaplains: Right for Faith Communities, Wrong for Public Schools” is designed to help school district trustees understand the requirements of SB 763, which mandates that every school district in Texas take a record vote by...
by Becca Edwards | Sep 25, 2023 | Blog, Climate Justice, Disaster Responses and Resilience, Education, Latest Posts, Texas Climate & Energy
Last night a frontal boundary combined with extremely hot temperatures and high humidity levels to spark a severe thunderstorm that brought widespread hail, wind, and extreme precipitation to much of the Austin metro area. Like many Central Texans, I was initially...
by Bee Moorhead | Sep 14, 2023 | Education, Latest Posts, Religious Freedom
Senate Bill 763 gives public school districts the option to replace school counselors with religious chaplains. SB 763 doesn’t require school boards hire chaplains, but it requires them to take a record vote. Now, every Texas school board must vote on whether...
by Bee Moorhead | Aug 22, 2023 | Education, Faith Leader Statements, Human Rights, Latest Posts, Legislative, Religious Freedom
MEDIA CONTACTSManisha Sunil, West End Strategy Team / msunil@westendstrategy.com; 202-417-0171Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, BJC / guthrie@bjconline.org; 713-614-4946Joshua Houston, Texas Impact / josh@texasimpact.org; 979-487-1188 AUSTIN—More than 100 Texas chaplains...
by Joshua Houston | Jul 28, 2023 | Economic Justice, Education, Human Rights, Latest Posts, Legislative, Religious Freedom
What is a public school chaplain? Texas school children may soon find out. In 2023, the Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 763, which gives public school districts the option to hire religiously affiliated chaplains. However, the bill provides no definition, job...
