February 18, 2022      4:57 PM

Under fire on several fronts, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick proposes ending tenure at higher education institutions to combat critical race theory

Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick – angry with a UT Austin Faculty Council resolution affirming academic freedom – has said he and his higher education chair are ready to strike the concept of faculty tenure for all new university hires and those who teach critical race theory.

Patrick held a news conference on the same day a report emerged claiming he had recruited former Gov. Rick Perry to run against Gov. Greg Abbott in the GOP primary and just days after another report in the Texas Tribune laid out how his campaign had caused problems for GOP voter seeking mail in ballots. Patrick said he would not take questions about any topic other than CRT but bitterly called the Tribune reporting “trash” before walking away from the microphone.

Before that, he said teaching anything like critical race theory – an idea that one race considers itself inherently superior to another – should be defined as “just cause” for removal under the Education Code. That was Patrick’s characterization of CRT, by the way.

“We are not going to allow a handful of professors -- who do not represent the entire group – to teach and indoctrinate students with critical race theory that we are inherently racist,” Patrick said of the council resolution. “As a nation, we’re not going to allow it happen.”

By Kimberly Reeves

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