Friends of Texas Public Schools- 2024 Ambassador of the Year – “Courtney’s work as a Granbury ISD trustee defending the honor of her school district and educators against the political forces working to undermine their good work is courageous, inspiring, and just,”

The Texas Tribune – “I refuse to be someone’s puppet,” she wrote in a June 8 Facebook post. “I refuse to be told what to do, what to say or how to vote. I refuse to participate in any agenda that will dismantle or abolish public education.”

ProPublica – she made her break explicit and began warning residents that a deeper plan was afoot to eliminate public education in Texas.

The Wondros Podcast – Jesse and Priscilla talk to Gore about about the challenges of countering the unfounded views of her community as their elective representative and her sense that she was unwittingly part of a statewide effort to weaken support for public schools.

The ThoughtStretchers Education Podcast: Drew Perkins talks with Granbury, Texas school board member, Courtney Gore, and journalist, Jeremy Schwartz, about her experience with GOP efforts in her town to push their agenda at all costs.

Democracy and Education – In this conversation with Karin Chenoweth, Courtney Gore lays out how she did something that is very difficult—she changed her mind.

Have You Heard -She has since disavowed the far-right platform she ran on and now argues that the school culture wars are being ginned up in order to build support for private school vouchers–and a growing number of local Republicans agree with her.