January 17, 2018      5:50 PM

Education groups reject Paxton opinion on voting participation

“ATPE is disappointed that the Office of the Texas Attorney General spent so little time considering the merits of the request and the ancillary materials that it requested….Nevertheless, there is nothing in today’s opinion that warrants a change in our direction.”

Education associations appear nonplussed – perhaps defiantly so – in light of today’s opinion out of Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office forbidding the use of school district buses to ferry teachers and other employees to the polls.

Sen. Paul Bettencourt, R-Houston, requested the opinion in December, the opinion is back well before the polls open on Feb. 20 for early voting in primary elections. Bettencourt’s question actually was two-pronged: Could school districts use public funds to promote voting among teachers and students, based on this fairly innocuous resolution.  

By Kimberly Reeves

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