Yeager has been representing Place 7 for Carroll ISD since winning a special election for the seat in November. Carroll ISD - Andrew Yeager and Alex Sexton (both endorsed) Grapevine/Colleyville ISD - Tammy Nakamura (endorsed) and Kathy Spradley. By signing up you agree to ourTerms of ServiceandPrivacy Policy, Its heartbreaking and devastating, Anya Kushwaha, a coalition founder who graduated in 2016, said Tuesday. Summer Session IONLY: Registration beginsMonday, May 1stand ends onFriday,May 5th. Kushwaha said the addition of the two new board members, Cameron Cam Bryan and Hannah Smith, will effectively table any advancement of the coalitions goals within the district. "I'm so grateful to the voters for their confidence in me. Volunteers campaign for Andrew Yeager on Election Day, including one dressed as a dragon, imitating Carroll's school mascot. In the Southlake school board election, candidates in the city were divided between two camps -- a bitter campaign reflecting a growing countrywide divide over how to address issues of race, gender and sexuality in schools. Two trustees who support the plan, Carroll ISD board president Michelle Moore and vice president Todd Carlton, were indicted last month on charges of violating the Texas Open Meetings Act. Residents in Northwest ISD will also be able to vote on the district's $1.9 billion bond package. Day also asked Blue Action Democrats not to hand out her campaign literature, Hansen said. Voters may verify their registration and polling locations at the Tarrant County Elections Office website atwww.tarrantcounty.com/electionsor by viewing the list under the "May 6, 2023 - Voter Information" section. But a quick perusal of the plan suggests that there were perfectly valid reasons to vote against it. Earlier in the day, Yaeger called the plan an overreach. Candidate Stephanie Williams stands with supporters near Southlake Town Hall. The issue became the defining theme of Southlake's typically low-key municipal elections this spring, dividing neighbors and former friends. | In Dallas County, about 41,000 voters have cast their ballots during early voting ahead of the May 6 general election, according to the county's elections office. Prominent Southlake attorney Hannah Smith won a seat on the Carroll school board, defeating business consultant Ed Hernandez. The school board election was one-sided; Candidates in favor of diversity plan "not surprised by the outcome" Southlake grabbed national headlines in 2018 over a racist video Candidates in Saturday's Southlake City Council and school board elections are being called out for their previous support of O'Rourke, a Democratic presidential candidate and former U.S.. 5.3.2021 3:54 PM. Please Note: To look up a sample ballot you will need to enter your name and date of birth. Yeager, a regional ad sales executive for NBCUniversal-owned TV stations, won 65.4 percent of the more than 9,400 ballots cast. Listen to NBC News Southlake podcast: All episodes available now. Supporters of Stephanie Williams gather outside Southlake Town Hall. Mike Hixenbaugh is a senior investigativereporter for NBC News, based in Houston. In the May election, candidates endorsed by the Southlake Families PAC won school board seats by a seventy-to-thirty margin. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism, Digital and Print from the University of North Texas and began her journalism career at the North Texas Daily. This issue also became the focal point in Southlakes municipal elections this spring, dividing people in the city. Thats why you are seeing the turnout you are seeing," said voter Sabrina Mobi. Whether they voted for me or my opponent, they want to be involved in the process," he said. Residents could begin filing to run for those. Voters cast more than 24,000 ballots in a crowded race for three seats on the Thornton Township High School District 205 board. | In Southlake, Texas, where parents have been feuding for more than a year over a school districts proposal to address racism, candidates supported by a conservative political action committee won majority control of the school board Tuesday, clearing the way for the board to officially kill the polarizing diversity plan. Markowitz, a professor of health education at the University of Houston, called Andersons allegations outrageous and said she just wants to ensure students have access to a wide variety of age-appropriate books, so they dont leave high school completely unaware of different issues, like abuse and alcoholism, gang violence, gun violence, and, yes, sex., Its exhausting to know that people are purposely slandering your name in a community where youve simply tried to do whats right for everyone for so long, said Markowitz, who unsuccessfully ran for the state board of education in 2018. Texas town elects candidates opposed to school diversity plan, a proposal to combat racial and cultural intolerance in schools, a video of white Carroll high school students chanting the N-word, Texas town in spotlight after parents push back against diversity plan. Texas House approves bills to add panic Texas Department of Transportation to overhaul Hwy. It began to come up with a way to eliminate bullying, discrimination, racism on our campuses and in our schools, he said. The proposed plan was developed after students were seen using racist language in a video back in 2018. Candidates backed by the conservative Southlake Families PAC, which has raised more than $200,000 since last summer, won every race by anywhere from 70% to 30%, including two school board positions, two City Council seats and mayor. Her opponent Elisha Rurka earned 30.06% of the vote, or 2,800 votes. Southlake's population has tripled to more than 31,000 over the past three decades, driven in part by immigrants from South Asia drawn to the area by high-paying jobs and highly ranked schools. "This goes to show people are very interested. The effort was, in part, a recognition of changing demographics. I believe ALL our Dragons have the potential. Anna Caplan covers McKinney, Southlake, Grapevine and Colleyville. Code 11.002. April 23, 2023 6:30 AM. Elec. Below are profiles submitted by the candidates. Southlake residents who live in Denton County can find election information at VoteDenton.gov, 1400 Main StreetSuite 460Southlake, TX 76092Phone: 817-748-8400, Southlake Town Hall is a Tarrant County Vote Center location, and qualified voters may vote at any polling location within Tarrant County during Early Voting and on Election Day. Carroll ISD addresses Holocaust controversy at latest school board meeting. It has to end somewhere.. The misdemeanor charge was linked to messages exchanged before an August 2020 board meeting to discuss the cultural competence plan, according to copies of the indictments. Jennifer Hough, a white mother of two Carroll students who campaigned in support of the diversity proposal, said she was angry and heartbroken. IE 11 is not supported. 2400 N Carroll Ave VALPARAISO The Porter County Election Board voted Thursday against approving a a last-minute change to a polling site at Flint Lake Elementary School. The former teacher vows she will be back on the campaign trail next year. As the U.S. continues to grapple with racism and fatal police shootings of Black people, opponents of anti-racism education have won big in Southlake, Texas, school board election. Educ. Hannah Smith, a prominent Southlake lawyer who clerked for Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, defeated Ed Hernandez, a business consultant, to win a seat on the Carroll school board. Many students end up reporting each otheras well as faculty and staff membersfor relatively harmless or negligible slights. My conservative views right now are not represented on the current school board, Ashley McCombs said in an interview. The election made Southlake one of the first places in the country where candidates running on an anti-critical race theory platform have taken a school board majority. We are just ready to keep moving forward and doing what we can, using our voices.". In one extreme example, a conservative school board candidate running in the affluent Eanes Independent School District in Austin has raised more than $160,000 for his campaign on par with what some candidates spend to win seats in the Texas Legislature. Administration Building in Southlake on Nov. 18, 2021. . Southlake is a suburb of Dallas-Fort Worth. Prior to CI, Cody worked for various Missouri newspapers in Kansas City, St. Joseph, Maryville, Neosho and Joplin. So it's not going to be like this forever.". NBC News/Youtube. By James SamsonNovember 5, 2021. Joe Lancaster Both incidents sparked tense school board meetings. Grapevine-Colleyville ISD and Carroll ISD will each have three spots on the board of trustees that expire this spring and will be up for election. Critical race theory says racism is a systemic problem stemming from laws and institutions that perpetuate racial inequality. Code 11.061; Tex. Jones said she was disappointed by the election results, but she's not giving up. In the race for mayor, conservative John Huffman won 71 percent of the vote to defeat Debra Edmondson. Place 5: A.J. Meanwhile, student members of the Southlake Anti-Racism Coalition, which was organized last year to demand changes at Carroll, said they were upset by the results but determined to keep pushing for change. This comes as a setback amid calls for change in the country and a broader national reckoning over racism following the murder of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis. Southlake residents who live in Denton County can find election information at VoteDenton.gov For more information, you may contact the following offices: Southlake City Secretary's Office: 817-748-8183 Tarrant County Elections Administration: 817-831-8683 Denton County Elections Administration: 940-349-3200 Texas Ethics Commission: 512-463-5800 "This was about protecting students," Willams said. Hurst/Euless/Bedford ISD - no races. "Unfortunately, my opponent and the PAC are willing to put false information out and willing to twist narrative and use fear-mongering and use division," she said. Elections Academic performance State profile Pivot Counties Additional elections The table below contains links to school board elections covered by Ballotpedia in 2022 in this state. In the election, candidates supported by the conservative Southlake Families PAC, won every race by about 70 percent to 30 percent, including those for two school board positions, two City Council seats and mayor. Over 9,000 people voted on Saturday, three times as many as in similar contests in the past, NBC News reported. In a suburban Austin school board race thats emblematic of many contests across Texas, two conservative candidates, Tricia Quintero and Olivia Barnard, are running on a joint platform for a pair of at-large seats on the Dripping Springs Independent School Districts board of trustees, with a shared social media hashtag, #TheTwoForYou. To demonstrate the need for change, members of the student-led Southlake Anti-Racism Coalition collected more than 300 accounts from current and former Carroll students last year who said they had been mistreated because of their race, religion or sexual orientation. who works for a Southlake eye surgeon, is a mother and a self . Braun earned a seat on the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District board of trustees in a June 5 runoff election, winning 52 percent of the vote. The proposal was conceived in response to two incidents involving Southlake high school students using racial epithets. (Hannah Johnson/Community Impact), Reporter, Grapevine, Colleyville and Southlake & Keller, Roanoke and Northeast Fort Worth. Robert Penn Vice-President 2017 - 2028 rpenn@solake.org. Board of Education. Then a 'silent majority' fought back. Antonia Hylton is a correspondent for NBC News and MSNBC. And what was ultimately developed was a vehicle, in my opinion, to introduce critical race theory.. The Carroll ISD Administration Building is open Monday through Friday 8:00 am to 4:30 pm. I will not co-parent with the government, the caption read in part. So to me, the whole equal, that is just a cue word for, youre going to try to put in critical race theory, one of the group members said in the video, referring to the academic study of systemic racism that conservatives have redefined to describe lessons on racism and gender that they find objectionable. May 4, 2024 - Place 4 and Place5 will be elected. After the 2018 viral video, school leaders held listening sessions with students and parents and appointed a committee of 63 community volunteers to help make Carroll more welcoming for students from diverse backgrounds. Copyright 2023 IBTimes LLC. 2:28 PM Apr 24, 2023 CDT No less than Derald Wing Sue, the Columbia University psychologist who invented the concept of microaggressions, has expressed concerned about education administrators taking his ideas "out of context" and using them in a "punitive way.". A Valparaiso Community Schools . The acrimony landed the city in the national spotlight ahead of Election Day, with a flurry of stories appearing on right-wing news sites describing the contest as a test for a bigger national fight over anti-racism programs in schools. Early voting began April 24 and . Voters in Southlake will fill a vacant school . The Dallas Cowboys have wrapped up their 2023 draft after making eight selections. | Vote. In the midst of the pandemic, a heated presidential election and a broader national reckoning over racism following the May 2020 murder of George Floyd by a white police officer in Minneapolis, the plan was met with swift and fierce opposition. St. Clair Shores Sentinel | Published October 12, 2022. A Texas school board has scored an overwhelming election victory to stop "critical race theory" and a new "cultural competence action plan . The Board of Trustees consists of seven board members elected to serve, without compensation, for overlapping terms of three years each. "I don't want to think about all these kids that shared their stories, their testimonies," Hernandez said, growing emotional Saturday moments after having learned the election results. ", Many colleges and universities have systems for reporting and tracking microaggressions; for the most part, this has been a disaster. Candidates and voters on both sides described the election as a "fork in the road" for Southlake, a wealthy suburb 30 miles northwest of Dallas. Hannah currently covers Grapevine, Colleyville and Southlake. This landslide victory is from hundreds of volunteers and donors, thousands of hours and all of us having the spines to stand up to the rage mob, the group posted in an email blast. a segment Tuesday about Carroll's diversity plan and the resulting blowback. A Fort Worth man and his family say they are terrified and angry after the FBI originally posted his photo and identified him as the suspected shooter that killed five people near Houston Friday night. Opponents took particular issue with a district proposal to track incidents of microaggressions subtle, indirect and sometimes unintentional incidents of discrimination. "And it was about making sure our school system was inclusive and safe, and provided all students the opportunity to be their best. On Tuesday, Smith and Bryan appeared on Fox News in separate interviews, and Bryan was asked his opinion of the cultural competence plan. Please click here to view the Noticeof Election. Her husband, Jason McCombs, is also running for one of three open seats on the board in a joint campaign promising to bring Christian, conservative values and transparency to the board. Southlake: A viral video, a diversity plan, and an election that changed an affluent Texas town, misbranded under the umbrella of critical race theory, against mental health services in schools, later apologized and walked back those instructions, talking point among Republican politicians. (NBC News is part of NBCUniversal.). School board candidate Andrew Yeager stands with supporters outside Southlake Town Hall on Nov. 2, 2021. On the last day to file for a place on the General Election ballot, Friday, February 17, 2023, the Carroll ISD Administration building will remain open until 5:00 p.m. All Candidate Applications must be received no later than Friday, February 17, 2023 at 5:00 pmregardless of delivery method. Robby Soave Yeager opposed it as well. Early voting starts April 24. The PAC also influenced a landslide win for two different school board members back in May. Anna Caplan, Special Contributor. 5.1.2023 12:05 PM, Elizabeth Nolan Brown If you are interested in becoming a City Council candidate, please visit our City Council - Running for Office webpage. However, voters stood behind a slate of school board and City Council candidates who were against the plan. According to Tarrant County Elections, Southlakes Town Hall saw the most early voters across the entire county by far with 7,000 ballots cast. Political observers, meanwhile, are watching these races as a test of whether battles over racism and LGBTQ issues will continue to drive turnout heading into the November midterms. In May, two other candidates backed by Southlake Families PAC won seats on the Carroll school board in a bitter election that foreshadowed the nationwide fight over how to address issues of race, gender and sexuality in schools. Cameron Bryan, a civil engineer and father of four, defeated Lynda Warner. Terms Of Use, (Monkey Business Images | Dreamstime.com), Rivian Continues To Hemorrhage Money Despite $1.5 Billion in State Incentives, Minnesota Is Poised To Join 22 Other States in Legalizing Recreational Marijuana, Oren Cass Notices One of Industrial Policy's Fatal Flaws, Regulators Seize First Republic Bank and Sell It to JPMorgan Chase, Pro-Lifers Pushed Too Far and Doomed 2 Abortion Bans. The current school board has more liberal type, leftist views, which theres nothing wrong with that. In the end, the contest was not close. "I don't want to think about that right now, because it's really, really hard for me. Elections are conducted annually in May. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed. Republicans blew out Democrats by a roughly 70% to 30% margin to take two spots and control of the Carroll Independent School District board, two city council seats, and the Southlake mayor's seat. Neither incident occurred on school property, which limited administrators' ability to respond to them: Hateful speech is protected by the First Amendment, and it is proper to resist the notion that public schools' punitive powers should extend well beyond the campus. Carroll ISD is offering both Elementary and Secondary Summer School in June of 2023. The group was formed in February and has spent more than $400,000 supporting conservative candidates in four North Texas school board elections this spring, according to a financial disclosure. The plan is in limbo after a mother in the district filed a lawsuit last year claiming that the board violated the Texas Open Meetings Act, and a Tarrant County judge granted a temporary restraining order barring the district from moving ahead with it. Deep down, Maryland told The Dallas Morning News in October, I said to myself, This is something I need to do. And I'm just so grateful to hear of parents who are doing something. ", As a steady stream of Southlake voters headed to cast ballots at Town Hall on Saturday, many described the vote's significance. In the CISD School Board Place 4 race, Cameron "Cam" Bryan received 68.47% of the vote, with 6,849 votes cast. Reacting to the election outcome, Hernandez and other candidates, who were in favor of the diversity plan, said they were not "surprised" with the outcome in the city but were disappointed by the margin of their defeat. New political action committees have formed in communities all over Texas, many with names seemingly paying homage to Southlake Families: Theres Lake Travis Families PAC outside Austin, Spring Branch Families PAC in the suburbs of Houston and HP Families PAC in Highland Park, a wealthy Dallas suburb.
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