Two oil tycoons are spending millions to gut Texas public education, according to CNN report [View all]
Their long-term goal is to replace all public education with private Christian schools, according to former associates.
For years, two oil and fracking tycoons from West Texas have been funding some of the most radical conservative political candidates in Texas, in a push that former associates say is aimed at completely replacing public education with Christian-based private schooling, according to a new CNN report.
Over the last decade, Tim Dunn and his wife, Terri, have poured more than $18 million into far-right political action committees and political candidates for state and local positions across Texas, while Farris Wilks and his wife, Jo Ann, have given more than $11 million, according to CNN’s analysis of Texas Ethics Commission data.
The pair’s spending places them among the biggest political donors in the state, and has been focused on molding state and local policy to align with their far-right political goals. Reshaping education in Texas, former associates told CNN, has long been their top priority.
“The goal is to tear up, tear down public education to nothing and rebuild it,” Dororthy Burton, a former GOP activist who joined Wilks on a 2015 speaking tour, told CNN. “And rebuild it the way God intended education to be.”
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source: https://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Texas-Ted-Cruz-Tim-Nunn-Farris-Wilks-PAC-money-17327660.php
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