How Southlake, Texas, Won Its Battle against Critical Race Theory
Texas | June 4, 2021
It was the weekend that changed politics in Southlake, Texas, forever.
At the end of July last year, word began to spread of a quiet effort by the school board to pass a so-called Cultural Competence Action Plan, a critical race theory-inspired effort to ingrain woke racial politics in the town’s schools.
Tim O’Hare, a former chairman of the Tarrant County Republican Party who would be at the center of opposition to the plan, together with his friend and long-time political organizer and activist Leigh Wambsganss, remembers being in Montana when he heard of the impending vote.
“It was the perfect time to pass it with as few people in town as possible,” O’Hare says. But the 72-hour notice that the school board had to give for its scheduled meeting on Monday, August 3 was enough time for opponents to begin to mobilize…
(Excerpts from the National Review)