As an undergraduate at the University of Texas, I was tasked with investigating the funding sources of Hamas, the terrorist group that murdered 1,200 people, including 46 Americans, on Oct. 7, 2023. A truth became apparent: Qatar was not only one of Hamas’s biggest funders, having contributed billions of dollars, but also one of the largest foreign...
On April 7, the State Board of Education is set to give its final approval to new Social Studies Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS), a much-needed reform to the standards that determine what educators teach. Here’s what you need to know: The current Social Studies TEKS are profoundly inadequate. The flaws of the K-8...
“The risk pool situation in Texas, some would call it extortive,” according to prominent Texas attorney Marc Gravely, founder of Gravely PC and a specialist in high-stakes insurance recovery litigation. Gravely laid out serious legal concerns in a recent podcast surrounding the Texas Association of School Boards’ TASB Risk Fund that should alarm every taxpayer...