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Stockdale ISD board adopts resolution declining state-organized prayer policy
Summary
The board unanimously approved a resolution declining to adopt a board policy mandating state-organized prayer, a resolution brought to the district by a group of pastors and discussed in the context of Senate Bill 11.
The Stockdale ISD board approved a resolution on Feb. 9 that the district will not adopt a board policy mandating state-organized prayer. The recommendation came from Mr. Deaver, the motion was moved by Trustee Sherry Lambeck and seconded by Trustee Tanner Voelkel, and the measure passed 7–0.
Meeting minutes note the resolution was sent to the district by a group of pastors and discussed in relation to Senate Bill 11; the transcript records the recommendation "to not adopt board policy mandating for a state-organized prayer policy." The board did not record alternate language or a counterproposal in the excerpt.
