The problem in higher education finance is not relatively insignificant changes in appropriations, but spiraling increases in operating costs. The difference between real appropriations and real operating costs has more than doubled from about $5,400 in 1970-71 to nearly $11,700 in 2007-08. Not surprisingly, higher tuition has filled this bulging gap.
K-12 Education
A Decade of Soft Power: How Foreign Adversaries Quietly Entered Texas’s Classrooms
Recent concerns surrounding a planned Grapevine-Colleyville Independent School District (GCISD) event have ignited a broader and long-overdue conversation about who—and what—local officials and leaders are allowing into Texas public schools. The district recently acknowledged that Colleyville Heritage High School facilities were rented for the May 9–10 Dallas Islamic Games, an annual multi-age sports tournament organized...
January 28, 2026