Hoping for postings from someone besides me, I’ve held off contributing for the last month or so. The State Board meeting this week has attracted plenty of attention, and given us plenty to write about, but no posts have been submitted.
When I agreed to set this site up and maintain it, I didn’t envision being [...]

In an op-ed published March 29 in the American-Statesman, State Representative Donna Howard reviews the evolution of the State Board, which began life as a three-member body consisting of the governor, the comptroller, and the secretary of state. Observing that
the only constitutional reason for the existence of the Texas SBOE is to manage the Permanent School [...]

There was one of the largest crowds ever at the Women Vote meeting last night to hear Kathy Miller and David Hillis speak about the State Board of Education. There must have been close to 75 people there. I distributed our flyers on tables around the room. At the end of the meeting, I went [...]

The candidate forum that was to be hosted by the Round Rock PTA Council on February 11 has been canceled. At this point we don’t know the reason for the cancellation; when (if) we do, this post will be revised.

The group’s two-page flyer has been revised for the upcoming primaries. In addition to an introduction to the State Board’s structure and responsibilities, it contains brief biographies of the Republican and Democratic candidates for District 10.

Today’s Austin American-Statesman has a front-page article by Kate Alexander on the Republican candidates for the State Board of Education’s District 10.
Cynthia Dunbar’s decision to leave the State Board of Education at the end of her first term has sparked a spirited three-way Republican primary to succeed her.
Dunbar has been a powerhouse of the board’s [...]

The Washington Monthly‘s January issue has a cover story on the Texas SBOE, “Revisionaries: How a group of Texas conservatives is rewriting your kids’ textbooks.” The article focuses on Board member—and former chairman—Don McLeroy, but it mentions SBOE10′s incumbent Board member in passing:
Among the new cadre were some fiery ideologues; in her self-published book, Cynthia [...]

In all, five candidates filed to run for SBOE 10 seat in 2010. Three, Marsha Farney, Rebecca Osborne and Brian Russell will be running in the Republican Primary. Judy Jennings will be the Democratic candidate and Jessica Dreesen will be the Libertarian candidate.
Education First looks forward to a strong debate about ideas and tactics to [...]

A number of candidates have now filed as candidates for State Board of Education Place 10. The Austin Chronicle is reporting that Rebecca Osborne, Brian Russell and Marsha Farney will be competing in the Republican Primary in March. Judy Jennings is the current sole filer currently on the Democratic side. A Libertarian candidate has filed [...]

The Texas Tribune‘s 2010 series has a couple of new articles on the Republican candidates for SBOE District 10. Abby Rapoport’s ironically titled “Survival of the Fittest,” which preceded Cynthia Dunbar’s official withdrawal, describes her “likely” replacement, Brian Russell, as having “nothing but kind words for Dunbar.”
The other article, “Done-bar,” by Reeve Hamilton, includes [...]