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Shallowater ISD board declines motion to record vote on adopting SB 11 policy requiring campus prayer period
Summary
A motion to adopt a resolution providing for a recorded vote on whether the district should require a period of prayer and Bible or religious text reading at every campus under SB 11 failed 2–5 at the Feb. 25 special meeting.
A motion to adopt a resolution that would have provided for a recorded vote on whether Shallowater ISD should require a period of prayer and reading of the Bible or other religious text at every campus under Senate Bill 11 failed at the board's Feb. 25 special meeting.
Board President Brice Foster moved that the board adopt a resolution to provide for a recorded vote on whether the district should adopt a policy implementing SB 11 and Texas Education Code §25.0823; Kyla Hamilton seconded. The minutes record the motion as agenda item 9853 and indicate the motion failed by a recorded count of 2 yeas and 5 nays. The minutes do not specify which members cast the yea votes in the failed motion. The meeting adjourned at 6:18 p.m.
The minutes show earlier discussion about whether the district should require campuses to provide a period for prayer and religious text reading under SB 11, but they record no subsequent adoption of such a campus policy at this meeting.
