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In a rare interview with the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR), Breitbart Texas spoke with Alia Salem, Executive Director of CAIR’s Dallas-Fort Worth chapter about the controversy over Stand With the Prophet, the Islamic fundraiser held at the suburban Dallas public school-owned property, the Curtis Culwell Center. The main speaker, New York Imam Siraj Wahhaj, was an unindicted co-conspirator in the 1993 World Trade Center (WTC) bombing, who, although never charged, defended the convicted bomb plotters, called the FBI and CIA the “real terrorists,” made extremist, anti-American statements in the 1990’s, and said that he hoped all Americans one day would become Muslim.

In response to public outcry, local grassroots groups will join forces to stand for free speech and peacefully protest the Islamic fundraiser, Stand with the Prophet in Honor and Respect on Saturday, January 17, outside of the Curtis Culwell Center in the Dallas suburb of Garland, starting at 5pm (CT). The effort will be headed up by nationally recognized human rights activist Pamela Geller.

Stand with the Prophet in Honor and Respect, an event that asks “Ready to defeat Islamophobia?” is coming to the Dallas area Curtis Culwell Center on Saturday, January 17, 2015, at 6pm. Until recently, few knew anything about this conference and now that many more do, residents are not just upset about the event and its speakers, they are upset that it is being held on the publicly-owned property of the Garland Independent School District (ISD) in a facility that was built and paid for with property taxpayer funded school bonds.

When you think “earthquake,” you don’t exactly think of Texas but it continues to be seismic central in Dallas. On Sunday, January 11 at 7:46pm, the Richter scale hit magnitude 2.5. This newest shaker was centered in the City of Irving near the former site of the Texas Stadium, the site of much of the rumbling in North Texas. Although there has been no damage, it has rattled nerves, caused schools to run earthquake drills, and gotten some folks to ask about earthquake insurance policies.

“The truth is Texas is being California-ized and you may not even be noticing it,” said Abbott. He added, “It’s being done at the city level with bag bans, fracking bans, tree cutting bans. We’re forming a patchwork quilt of bans and rules and regulations that is eroding the Texas model.”

The Tarrant County Republican Party (TCGOP) passed a resolution calling for a “more conservative candidate” for Texas House Speaker than incumbent Joe Straus.

Texas state representatives Matt Rinaldi (District 115) and Jason Villalba (District 114) met for a rousing debate on the upcoming Texas House Speaker vote, moderated by Dallas radio personality Mark Davis (660-AM) on the Southern Methodist University (SMU) campus on Wednesday night, January 7.

The premise behind the Common Core State Standards is that all public school students will be college and career ready for the theoretical workforce of tomorrow. Even in Texas, which never adopted the Common Core, College and Career Readiness Standards (CCRS) drive public education today. Yet, what is called ‘college and career ready’ may not be preparing students at all because most US college freshman can only read at a seventh grade level.

2014 was a year of hits and misses that included a grab bag of educational issues from the rollout of new and improved high school graduation requirements that are supposed to better prepare Texas students for college and/or the eventual workforce. It was also a year when more Texas public schools failed students than ever before.

Texas started the new year with a 2.4 magnitude earthquake in the Dallas suburb of Irving at 8:29pm on January 1, 2015.

It is nothing short of tragic. A nine-year-old boy is the lone survivor of an apparent domestic violence turned multiple murder-suicide that happened inside his home in the the Dallas suburb of Crowley on Sunday, December 28.

The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) confirmed that a 2.8 magnitude earthquake rolled through the Dallas area at 8:10am (CT) on Tuesday, December 30, 2014.

In a year marked by an unprecedented case of the deadly Ebola virus entering the United States through Dallas and a fatal outbreak of Enterovirus D68 (EV-D68) that peaked with record numbers of children experiencing paralysis-like symptoms, 2014 will close in Texas with more illness — flu not contained by its vaccine and an appearance by the unexpected Hantavirus.

Drivers in two major Texas cities — Austin and San Antonio — will ring in the new year with a little more regulation.

Advanced Placement (AP) has been the “gold standard of accelerated academic achievement, bringing first year college level work to the best and brightest on a high school level for years. Its end-of-course exam has translated into transferable college credits for

“The Interview,” the controversial comedy that was pulled from movie theaters, is back on and it will be shown on one day only, December 25, Christmas Day, as a limited release.  One of the theaters confirmed to show the film

On Friday, December 19, as public schools let out early across the state for the holidays, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) released dismal findings — 1,199 campuses statewide were identified as low performing schools because of poor test scores or

Breitbart Texas has learned that Julie Shields, Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) Assistant Director of Governmental Relations is joining the Abbott team. TASB represents and lobbies for the interests of Texas public schools. Shields spoke to Breitbart Texas late

Former lawyer and ex-judge Eric Williams, who was accused of the brutal murders of Kaufman County District Attorney Mike McLelland, his wife, and an assistant prosecutor, was sentenced to death by a jury on December 17. Texas Lawyer reported that

What started out as the story of a missing four year-old North Texas boy that triggered an Amber Alert, is turning out to be the tale of youngster kidnapped by a father wanted for the murder of the boy’s mother.