Garion Frankel is a Ph.D student in PK-12 educational leadership at Texas A&M University. He is a Young Voices emeritus, and his articles can be found in outlets like Newsweek, USA Today, and the Houston Chronicle.
2025 was a dramatic year for school choice in Texas. But educational reform doesn’t stop here. The Legislature passed the state’s first private school choice program — a nearly-universal education savings account that will enable at least 100,000 Texas families to use public funds for higher education expenses, tutoring, testing services, educational therapies, online courses, textbooks, school...
Educators desperate to keep students’ attention will use anything to appeal to their young audience — but that doesn’t make TikTok an appropriate educational tool. As of last October, more than 94 million Americans used the short-form video platform at least once a month. That number is projected to increase to 101.3 million Americans by...
Everyone knows the pandemic hit school finances hard, but districts shouldn’t make COVID-19 the scapegoat for all of their money problems. While the virus certainly has had a fundamental role in precipitating financial hardship, for many districts, much of the woe is of their own making. Up and down the Dallas-Fort Worth area, districts are...
Most signs point to an improving COVID-19 situation in Texas—unless you consider the recently questionable elevated test positivity rate that’s keeping us from reopening. On Aug. 13, Texas reported 6,879 hospitalized COVID-19 patients statewide, the lowest number since June 30. And on that day, the Texas Medical Center in Houston had its 27th consecutive day...
Comparing the Texas Rangers to the Washington Redskins is nonsense—and not just because one is baseball and the other is football. Even before the Washington Redskins elected to change their name, the Texas Rangers baseball team had come under increasing scrutiny. The Minneapolis Star-Tribune referred to the Rangers moniker, which refers to the storied law...
Three Montana moms won a significant victory for their children—and others—at the U.S. Supreme Court on Tuesday. The High Court ruled that the state’s ban on their use of public school scholarship funds at the school of their choice—which happened to be a religious school—was unconstitutional. In 2015, the Montana State Legislature created a tax...