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AUSTIN – Texas<\/a> Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has pledged $1 million in campaign funds to the goal of putting a Turning Point USA chapter on every college and high school campus<\/a> in the state.\u00a0<\/p>\n The announcement comes a day after Patrick and state AG Ken Paxton announced their intent to speak at state events for the conservative group, which was founded by activist Charlie Kirk<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n TPUSA in every Texas school <\/p>\n Patrick’s Friday announcement said he’s committing $1 million from his campaign, in hopes that other Texans will donate to the cause as well.\u00a0<\/p>\n The lieutenant governor said 135,000 requests have been made to start new TPUSA chapters since Kirk’s assassination, and he wants Texas to lead to charge.\u00a0<\/p>\n He mentioned his and Paxton’s plans to speak at a TPUSA event at the University of Houston on Tuesday. Paxton will also speak at a UNT event on Monday, and another at Texas State University on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n Charlie Kirk and Texas education <\/p>\n Dig deeper:<\/p>\n Since Kirk’s death, impacts have rippled through the Texas education system.<\/p>\n The Texas Education Agency launched an investigation<\/a> in September into teachers who allegedly shared “reprehensible and inappropriate content” about the shooting.<\/p>\n The investigation came in the midst of high-profile terminations for comments and online remarks made about the conservative political commentator’s death, including one employee of a Texas school.\u00a0<\/p>\n Who is Charlie Kirk? <\/p>\n The backstory:<\/p>\n Kirk, a 31-year-old conservative activist and friend of Trump\u2019s, was speaking to a crowd of about 3,000 people at Utah Valley University Wednesday afternoon when a shooter fired a single shot from a building about 140 yards away. Kirk, the founder of Turning Point USA, was on the first stop of his American Comeback tour.\u00a0<\/p>\n Graphic video shared on social media<\/a> showed the moment Kirk was struck by the bullet and killed.<\/p>\n Kirk’s body was flown back to his home state of Arizona<\/a> on Air Force Two. Trump said he believes Kirk’s funeral will be held next weekend. The president said he’ll attend.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Source: Information in this report came from Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and previous FOX Texas Digital reporting.<\/p>\n Texas<\/a>Education<\/a>Politics<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"article AUSTIN – Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick has pledged $1 million in campaign funds to the goal…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40272,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[163,223,287,27,29,28,216,393],"class_list":{"0":"post-40271","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-texas","8":"tag-education","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-politics","11":"tag-texas","12":"tag-texas-headlines","13":"tag-texas-news","14":"tag-tx","15":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40271","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40271"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40271\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40271"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40271"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40271"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}