Editorial: State Board of Education candidate would set back Texas
For years, the Texas State Board of Education was a certifiable mess. Two factions on the board — one moderate and the other extremist conservative — battled over minutiae the conservatives argued was...
View ArticleState Education Board goes to runoff to replace Ratliff
A former East Texas educator will face off with a Lufkin chiropractor and school board president in a May runoff to replace Republican Thomas Ratliff of Mount Pleasant on the State Board of Education....
View ArticleRace for state ed board heats up
Save for some flare-ups in the past few years over what to put in social studies textbooks — and how to handle an error in one of them — the State Board of Education has seen more turbulent days. The...
View ArticleControversial state education candidate heads to runoff
Mary Lou Bruner, a State Board of Education candidate from East Texas who has drawn attention for inflammatory comments about President Barack Obama, is headed to a runoff election in May. Bruner, who...
View ArticleTexas education board dreads possible return of culture war with anti-gay...
AUSTIN – Mary Lou Bruner has at least twice said President Barack Obama was a gay prostitute in his youth. She believes that there is scientific proof the Grand Canyon could not have been created by...
View ArticleWoman who called Obama a prostitute heads to Texas Board of Education runoff
Mary Lou Bruner, a State Board of Education candidate from East Texas who has drawn attention for inflammatory comments about President Barack Obama, is headed to a runoff election in May. Bruner, who...
View ArticleTexas Political Hopeful Claims Obama Was A 'Male Prostitute'
A Texas Republican who is running for a seat on her state's Board of Education has some very unusual thoughts on President Barack Obama. Mary Lou Bruner, who reportedly spent 36 years as a public...
View ArticleRecent editorials from Texas newspapers
The Dallas Morning News. March 31, 2016. Wacky worldviews and partisans who stand by them Just when it appeared the State Board of Education was turning over a new leaf, with Republicans such as Thomas...
View Article22 Texas races headed to May 24 runoff (TCTA - Texas Classroom Teachers...
(Source: TCTA - Texas Classroom Teachers Association) Democratic and Republican Party primaries March 1 decided who will appear on the November ballot in many statewide, congressional, State Board of...
View ArticleOutrageously miseducated candidate surprisingly loses Texas school board race
Do we have Zach Kopplin to thank for Mary Lou Bruner's surprising but welcomed political defeat? Kopplin, the son of New Orleans Deputy Mayor Andy Kopplin, took the same passion he used to rail against...
View ArticleIt’s scary that many still supported Bruner for the state education board
Most of us had never heard of retired teacher Mary Lou Bruner before her bizarre and nonsensical Facebook posts thrust a usually quiet State of Board of Education race into the national spotlight....
View ArticleAnti-Gay Birther Defeated in TX Election
An East Texas Tea Party activist who was expected to win a seat on its State Board of Education lost her primary runoff Tuesday after drawing significant media attention for her...
View ArticleThe Latest: Winner in Texas education runoff thanks rival
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Latest on a Texas education board race (all times local): 10:15 p.m. The winner of a Texas education board runoff says he thinks Republican voters in March simply weren't...
View ArticleWinner in Texas education runoff thanks rival
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — The Latest on a Texas education board race (all times local): 10:15 p.m. The winner of a Texas education board runoff says he thinks Republican voters in March simply weren't...
View ArticleWoman known for conspiracy posts loses Texas education race
A Texas education board candidate who claimed that President Barack Obama was a gay prostitute and believes dinosaurs walked the Earth with humans lost her primary runoff Tuesday night just two months...
View ArticleEx-teacher who says Noah's Ark killed dinosaurs loses board of education bid
Mary Lou Bruner loses runoff for seat in Texas that would have given her a say in what more than five million children learn in classrooms and read in textbooks...
View ArticleTexas Board Of Ed Candidate Who Said Obama Was Prostitute Loses Runoff
Even though Mary Lou Bruner went into Tuesday's runoff election in Texas as the frontrunner for a seat on the state board of education, she ultimately lost the election Tuesday night to Keven Ellis, a...
View ArticleTexas board of education vote is critical for conservatives – and US schools
Board has become a battleground as members seek to stamp their values on textbooks, and now an extreme conservative is on the brink of a key position...
View ArticleWatchdogs say Texas dodged 'train wreck' on education board
When Texas takes up always-contentions revisions of science and social studies coursework in 2017, a former schoolteacher who believes dinosaurs were on Noah's Ark and Democrats killed John F. Kennedy...
View ArticleTexas education board candidate known for conspiracy posts
AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas education board candidate who claimed that President Barack Obama was a gay prostitute and believes dinosaurs walked the Earth with humans lost her primary runoff Tuesday...
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