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...ARTICLE ON LOCAL EFFORTS TO oppose ultra-conservatives [Politics, July 10] included a quote from Ken Blalack stating that he helped lead the campaign for school-board recall in Vista, California. While Blalack's group, the Organization of Mainstream Activists, is active against the religious right, Blalack was not involved in the Vista recall. The credit for that successful campaign belongs to Barbara Donovan and the Coalition for Mainstream Education. In addition, a photograph and caption with the story indicated that Blalack had denounced book banning in Vista. This action took place in La Mesa-Spring Valley, California...
Round Rock is just one of 13 Texas school districts where moderates have prevailed over religious-right candidates in recent elections. And the rout of ultraconservatives in Texas mirrors the results of school-board elections last November in two key districts in California and Florida. While there is little evidence so far that the movement is spreading fast throughout America's 15,025 school boards, there are signs that moderates, many of whom stayed home when the first wave of ultraconservatives marched into office three years ago, are now mobilizing themselves. "If you have a really active group [of moderate...
...Florida's Lake County district, crucial school-board decisions about construction projects were held up while a Christian-right majority formulated, then adopted, an "America First" policy instructing teachers to promote American values as "superior to other foreign or historic cultures." The policy struck many people in the predominantly white, Baptist county as offensive. School-board meetings that had once attracted just dozens now drew hundreds of adults, itching to trade insults. As the rancor deepened, voters seeking to defuse the ideological tension formed a committee that screened candidates and raised money. "It was a joint effort by parents, teachers...
...certainly not all. For suddenly it seems that Christ's attorneys are turning up everywhere, from school-board meetings to the Supreme Court, which last week heard a major case on the separation of church and state. Rosenberger v. University of Virginia, which involves the denial of student-activity funds to Wide Awake, a Christian magazine, attracted a slew of amicus briefs on both sides. One of those supporting Ronald Rosenberger and his fellow Christian students was filed by a legal foundation, housed at Regent Law School, called the American Center for Law and Justice, or ACLJ...
...vote, Alabama's Randolph County school board reinstated Hulond Humphries, the white high school principal accused of trying to cancel a prom to avoid interracial dating. The only white school-board member to join the lone black member in voting against Humphries resigned in protest...