The new chair of the Texas State Board of Education is Gail Lowe of Lampassas, TX. It could be worse, Governor Goodhair chose Lowe over a sister dingbat on the SBOE, Cynthia Dunbar. Lowe was chosen because she was a True Republican Woman with a smiling face; Dunbar has a more intense demeanor. So, here we go: the new SBOE chair wants to Christianize the curriculum and, while she's at it, make that curriculum lily-white. Ben Sargent gets it exactly right: white Protestant privilege gets its due. If this is (fair & balanced) wrong-headedness, so be it.
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Texas State Board of Edudcation — July 2009
By Ben Sargent
[Ben Sargent drew editorial cartoons regularly for the Austin American-Statesman (1974-2009). Sargent now contributes a cartoon to the Sunday editorial page. His cartoons are also distributed nationally by Universal Press Syndicate. Sargent was born in Amarillo, Texas, into a newspaper family. He learned the printing trade from age twelve and started working for the local daily as a proof runner at fourteen. He attended Amarillo College and received a Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Texas at Austin in 1970. Sargent won the Pulitzer Prize for Editorial Cartooning in 1982. He has also received awards from Women in Communications, Inc., Common Cause of Texas, and Cox Newspapers. He is the author of Texas Statehouse Blues (1980) and Big Brother Blues (1984).]
Copyright © 2009 Ben Sargent/Austin American-Statesman
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Gail Lowe (R)
11 Chris Avenue
Lampasas, TX 76550
(512) 556-6262
(512) 936-4319 FAX
sboesupport@tea.state.tx.us
January 1, 2009 - January 1, 2013
Gail Lowe was elected to the State Board of Education in November 2002 and re-elected in 2004 and 2008. Governor Rick Perry appointed Lowe chair of the board on July 10, 2009. She will serve in that capacity through February 1, 2011. She currently serves on the Committee on School Finance/Permanent School Fund. Previously, Lowe was vice chair of the board's Committee on Planning and later chaired the Committee on School Initiatives.
Prior to her election to the State Board of Education, Lowe served on the Lampasas Independent School District Board of Trustees, as well as district and campus site-based decision-making committees. She has been a longtime classroom volunteer, working primarily with elementary schoolchildren who have fallen behind in their reading and math skills.
Lowe is a co-publisher of the semi-weekly newspaper, the Lampasas Dispatch Record. She is a member of various regional and national newspaper organizations and serves as vice president/treasurer for Hill Country Publishing Co. Inc. Lowe is also an honorary member of Delta Kappa Gamma.
She has been active in civic affairs as a charter member of the Lampasas Republican Women and a business member of the Lampasas County Chamber of Commerce. Lowe is a member of Friends of Lampasas Public Library and is involved with New Covenant Church, where she serves on the financial review board. In 2005, she was named Conservative of the Year by the non-partisan Lampasas County Conservative Club.
Lowe attended the University of Alabama from 1975-1977. She received a Bachelor of Science degree from Louisiana State University in 1978.
She and her husband have three children who have been educated in Lampasas public schools.
As a member of the State Board of Education, Lowe represents the counties of Archer, Bosque, Brown, Clay, Comanche, Cooke, Coryell, Denton, Eastland, Erath, Grayson, Hamilton, Hill, Hood, Jack, Lampasas, McLennan, Mills, Montague, Palo Pinto, Somervell, Stephens, Wichita, Wise, and Young, as well as parts of Bell County. Ω
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