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Voters fire book banners in Texas school board elections [1]
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Date: 2025-05-06
Texas suburban voters removed hard-line book banners from a number of suburban Houston school boards. See article.
In Fort Bend County Independent School District (FBISD), Afshi Charania and Angie Wierzbicki won election as trustees. Charania defeated incumbent Rick Garcia who supported what district librarians described as the “most restrictive” book policy. Wierzbicki defeated Cheryl Buford, who was hand-picked by outgoing board member David Hamilton who championed book banning. (I made a very modest effort to help by distributing Afshi and Angie door hangers to about 120 homes.)
In Katy ISD, board president and book-banner Victor Perez lost to former principal James Cross. In Clear Creek ISD, Rebecca Lilley defeated incumbent book banner Scott Bowen. In Humble ISD, Brittnai Brown won election over Ken Kirchhofer and Tracy Shannon. Shannon, who declared herself to be in favor of banning 1,000 books, was backed by the Republican Party. Fort Bend, Katy, Clear Creek, and Humble ISD are all in the Houston area.
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