Texans are rightly concerned with the enormous harms being done to their children on social media. However, due to an outdated federal law, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), states are handcuffed in what they can do to protect children online. What is COPPA, why does it limit Texas from protecting children online, and what can the 88th Legislature do about it?
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