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According to the Texas Election Code and the Texas Constitution, the Texas Education Agency(TEA) does not have the authority to deny voting rights in Texas. Therefore, you have to ask yourself, how did the TEA legally take over Houston Independent School District(HISD) when its role is primarily related to education, and not voting rights?

The TEA's responsibility is education, but that sole responsibility has expanded after Governor Greg Abbott included in his governing powers, House and Senate Bills that by design were to make Texas students stand out across the nation with unprecedented educational success stories that were troubled by criminal behavior, social media interference via cellphone distractions, immigrants failures to assimilate, and budget troubles for local school districts.

You'd expect governmental voting rights denial from Democrats because in their mindset, the dumber kids are, the easier it is to control them when they reach voting age.

Actions that could be interpreted as denying a person's right to vote are a violation of state and, or federal law. This would remind many minorities of the days when cases of violations of voters' rights impacted them with the creation of barriers to voting, and if you noticed that every time the implanted Superintendent, Mike Miles discusses the issue of school closures, those schools are in minority communities, and are historical schools.

In the HISD takeover, TEA graduated with violates with both, minority and majority voting rights.

It's suggested that cases such as the HISD loss of voting privileges should be taken up through the Texas Secretary of State's office. But that won't do any good because supposedly Abbott has taken steps and enacted legislation that deals with the voting process in Texas.

But were those actions constitutional?

If school districts consistently fail to meet state standards, House Bill 1842 was passed in 2015. The bill allowed the state to take over and replace the elected HISD school board with an appointed board of managers, which effectively removed the power of HISD voters to choose their school board representatives during the TEA's takeover of the district.

Senate Bill 1365 was passed in 2021 and that provided the state education commission with a final and unappealable power to take over local school districts. The bill solidified what's determined to be a legal basis for interventions that have in many instances, crippled HISD.

Those low-performing schools that have been taken over have stripped the people's rights to even object to the changes.

Essentially these Texas voters have no power at all to even object to policies that the board of managers come up with.

While critics of the takeover continually voice their thoughts of how the takeover heavily affects disproportionate communities of color while undermining the local Democratic control over schools, there's another important bit of information to consider.

If voting rights in Texas can’t be stripped, or suppressed, then how did the House and Senate Bills get passed with Gov. Abbott’s approval?

According to procedures surrounding the Texas Constitution, the governor, House, or Senate can't override the document.

In the sense of the United States Constitution, the Texas Constitution is the state's foundational legal document and can only be changed through a specific amendment process. The legislature can introduce legislation and gather two-thirds votes in both houses, but the amendments must then be approved by a majority of voters.

No single branch of government can unilaterally change the Texas Constitution, according to the document.

The debate over the loss of voting rights will continue until Abbott and the TEA scam are brought to light, but here's an interesting bit of information. It's reported that there are still five seats in HISD school board open for votes, and those votes are scheduled for a general election in November this year.

Will Abbott and the TEA allow or deny this voting right?

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