This brief examines the education reforms of the Special Session, concluding that the truest measure of effectiveness will be found in the degree to which they pave the way for even greater reforms in the 80th Session of the Legislature.
K-12 Education
Alpha School isn’t an ‘AI story.’ It’s a structural indictment—and employers/HR should pay attention
Alpha School’s “AI education shakeup” is really a warning to employers: the fastest way to outperform isn’t smarter tech—it’s removing the soul-crushing compliance load that keeps humans from owning the mission. Alpha School was founded in 2014, and it’s recently become a national talking point because its students do core academics in roughly two hours...
March 18, 2026