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From Texas Scorecard via Jeff Childers, 9-16-23
🔥 In a terrific example of a local win, the Texas Scorecard ran an uplifting story yesterday headlined, “Leander School District Walks Back Rejection of Pocket Constitutions for Students.”
It started when a local chapter of Citizens Defending Freedom (CDF) got 17,000 pocket constitutions from a pro-Constitution charity, planning to hand them out for free at middle schools throughout Williamson County in Texas.
But the Leander school district rejected the donation. No constitutions.
Worse, school officials offered a grotesque explanation: “The materials contain advertisements that would prevent the District from maintaining a position of neutrality on political or religious issues or would create an appearance of favoritism.”
So CDF’s lawyer fired back, in a letter citing the First Amendment plus the fact it was Texas’s “Freedom Week” under the state education code, and further pointing out that September 17th is Constitution Day.
After local media got involved, Leander ISD pivoted, issuing a statement reversing its anti-constitution decision, citing “internal confusion and misapplication of district policy.” While officials didn’t exactly embrace the pocket constitutions, at least they are now allowing CDF to make the pocket-sized founding documents available to middle school students.
Think about this: When the pandemic started we didn’t have nearly as many counter-revolutionary local groups like CDF, Moms for Liberty, and so forth. Progress, and lots of it.
