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Weatherford College Donated Land to a Christian School. State and Federal Laws Prohibit Such Gifts, Experts Say.
In 2004, a public junior college in North Texas abandoned plans to lease some of its land to a religious organization for $1 a month after the state attorney general warned that the effort could violate the law.Nearly two decades later, the college went further. After publicly posting only that Weatherford College’s board would meet to discuss property, members emerged from behind closed doors in November 2022 and voted unanimously to give a 38-acre property to Community Christian School. The property was valued at more than $2 million, according to the county’s appraisal district.“Faith and patience is the path,” Dan Curlee, then the college’s attorney, wrote in an email after the vote to Doug Jefferson, the administrator of the private religious school.Jefferson, who had asked…The post Weatherford College Donated Land to a Christian School. State and Federal Laws Prohibit Such Gifts, Experts Say. appeared first on Texas Monthly.