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Fixer Upper star Chip Gaines and wife Joanna hit with foul-mouthed online attacks for donating $1,000 to his sister s hardline anti-critical race theory school board election campaign
Chip and Joanna Gaines have been abused online for supporting Chip s sister Shannon Braun in an upcoming school board election
The Fixer Upper hosts donated $1,000 to Chip s sister Shannon Braun, who has repeatedly posted attacks on critical race theory on her campaign website
Braun is running to be elected to the school board of the Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District in Texas
She has launched repeated attacks on incumbent trustee Mindy McClure, whose campaign website does not mention CRT
GOP States Expand School Choice as Lockdowns Boost Alternatives
Several Republican-led states are advancing school choice programs amidst a growth of alternative learning arrangements spurred by pandemic-related lockdowns.
The new measures sometimes build on already established programs, expanding access to education savings accounts and scholarships, allowing more parents to pull their children from public schools and have the programs help pay for a private school, homeschooling, or even a private tutor.
Such initiatives now have a potential to gain more popularity as parents have been dissatisfied with the way many schools handled the response to the CCP (Chinese Communist Party) virus pandemic, according to Jonathan Butcher, education researcher at the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank.