Republicans taking over stuff run by Black people because GOP hates democracy

[FakeNoose]

(link) https://www.inquirer.com/opinion/houston-school-takeover-republicans-democracy-20230319.html

When a state takeover of public schools in Houston — America’s fourth-largest city, and the biggest in Texas — was announced last week by state education officials under Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, the national media mostly treated it as a local story not worthy of much coverage in a nation now transfixed by the potential arrest of POTUS 45.

But what’s going down in Houston should be a much bigger deal, for two reasons.

First of all, the move is outrageous. Despite facing the same struggles as most large urban school districts around poverty and disinvestment, topped by the double whammy of COVID-19 and the natural disaster of Hurricane Harvey, Houston schools have been improving under metrics set by the state. Even the one “failing high school” cited by the Texas Education Agency for its takeover — which will allow the GOP administration to supersede the elected school board and appoint its own superintendent — has raised its grade to a passing “C.”

No wonder most local leaders in the Gulf Coast metropolis think this move by Abbott’s minions has little to do with what’s best for Houston’s 195,000 public schoolkids — 62% Latino and 22% Black — and everything to do with the grown-up politics of punishing a city now run by people of color who vote mostly Democratic, as well as giving Team Abbott a new venue to wage the GOP’s war on what they call “woke education.”

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This has to be stopped NOW or it's going to continue everywhere the Repukes have power.

[leftieNanner]

1. Add Jackson Mississippi courts

To that list.

[SheltieLover]

2. They've always hated democracy, even back to the beginning of our country..

[DBoon]

3. Florida of course

https://www.commondreams.org/news/2022/11/30/desantis-backed-education-purge-begins-after-school-board-takeovers-florida

[ybbor]

4. Happened in Michigan

Snyder took over Benton Harbor, Detroit and Flint. Hmm…, what do they all have in common?

[LymphocyteLover]

5. it's so disgusting... I can't wait until these racist assholes are finally kicked out of power

[femmedem]

6. Wow, I had missed this story.

This is jaw-dropping. There's no bottom to which they won't sink.

Thanks for posting.

[Bernardo de La Paz]

7. They can't stand that Houston is bigger than Dallas!

That snark of mine is not to detract from the plight of those whose rights have been stolen, again, by Republicans.

[FakeNoose]

8. Well yes, but Dallas had better look out

They have a black mayor in Dallas, and lots of Dem voters. Maybe this is a warning shot for the other big cities in Texas, namely Dallas and San Antonio.

[Marcuse]

9. Standard protocol in the District of Columbia.

[FakeNoose]

10. Isn't DC run by Dems?

Wherever there's a majority of Democratic voters, it should be easy to override the evil intentions of the Repukes.

[Marcuse]

11. It's run by whoever runs Congress at the time, although there is limited home rule.