{"id":14507,"date":"2016-05-10T02:26:53","date_gmt":"2016-05-10T02:26:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14507"},"modified":"2016-05-10T02:26:54","modified_gmt":"2016-05-10T02:26:54","slug":"local-control-who-needs-it-in-fort-worth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=14507","title":{"rendered":"Local control? Who needs it in Fort Worth?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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What am I missing here?<\/p>\n

Don’t statewide elected officials in Texas — all of whom are Republicans — tell us they prefer to let locals control their affairs? Get a load of this tidbit.<\/p>\n

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants\u00a0Fort Worth Independent School District Superintendent Kent Scribner to resign. He’s demanding it, by golly.<\/p>\n

Why?\u00a0Scribner has drafted guidelines regarding transgender students in the district.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.texastribune.org\/2016\/05\/09\/patrick-wants-fort-worth-superintendent-resign\/<\/a><\/p>\n

According to Patrick, Scribner has gone off the rails with this transgender matter.<\/p>\n

I believe I’ll set aside the correctness or wrongness of Scribner’s view on dealing with transgender students. My issue here is whether the state’s lieutenant governor should pressure a local school superintendent chosen by a duly elected local school board to quit his job.<\/p>\n

Lt. Gov. Patrick should butt out. How a major Texas school district decides to run its affairs is solely the province of its elected trustees.<\/p>\n

The Texas Tribune reports: “‘After less than a year as superintendent, Dr. Scribner has lost his focus and thereby his ability to lead the Fort Worth ISD,’ Patrick said in a statement. ‘He has placed his own personal political agenda ahead of the more than 86,000 students attending 146 schools in the district by unilaterally adopting ‘Transgender Student Guidelines.'”<\/p>\n

Interesting, don’t you think?<\/p>\n

Patrick said the superintendent has “placed his own personal political agenda ahead” of the needs of students. Isn’t that what Patrick is doing now, by demanding that a local school superintendent step down?<\/p>\n

This issue should be decided by the constituents in Fort Worth who elect the school board, which in turn appoints the district’s chief executive officer.<\/p>\n

Lt. Gov. Patrick’s primary job is to preside over the Texas Senate and to guide legislation through\u00a0the Legislature’s upper\u00a0chamber. It should not include telling local officials how to\u00a0conduct their own business.<\/p>\n

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What am I missing here? Don’t statewide elected officials in Texas — all of whom are Republicans — tell us they prefer to let locals control their affairs? Get a load of this tidbit. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick wants\u00a0Fort Worth Independent School District Superintendent Kent Scribner to resign. He’s demanding it, by golly. Why?\u00a0Scribner has … Continue reading Local control? Who needs it in Fort Worth?<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,18],"tags":[1255,6204,4653,4701,4886],"class_list":["post-14507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-political-news","category-state-news","tag-dan-patrick","tag-fort-worth-isd","tag-texas-legislature","tag-texas-senate","tag-transgender-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14509,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14507\/revisions\/14509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}