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Big donors fund anti-critical race theory, pro-charter candidates for school boards across Texas

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Published November 3, 2022 at 11:35 AM CDT

A new anti-critical race theory PAC has backed more than two dozen local school board candidates across some of the largest school districts in Texas since the start of 2021.

This year, the PAC began targeting the state Board of Education, which sets the statewide curriculum, approves textbooks and has veto power over new charter schools. Some board members have called some of the donations “unethical.”

Dominic Anthony Walsh of Houston Public Media reports.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.