First Unitarian Universalist Church of Austin

Public Education is Under Attack


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Guest Speaker Rev Jonanna Fontaine-Crawford's service delivered on March 24, 2024. Across the United States, people are showing up at school board meetings to protest books and knowledge they deem inappropriate, especially concerning education around diversity. Here in Texas, the governor called the legislature back into session in an attempt to divert public school funding to vouchers for private schools. But there is an underlying battle that has been waged since 1848 when Unitarian Horace Mann said, "Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery." What is the real outcome we are fighting over?
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