HB 3 should be commended for providing teacher merit pay for our most effective teachers and requiring school boards to adopt specific and public early literacy goals and monitor student achievement. HB 3 should be expanded to require school boards to adopt literacy and math goals for each school and student demographic. In addition, to provide meaningful, long-term property tax relief to Texas families and business, HB 3 should include a 2.5 percent revenue cap or more significant property tax relief.
Higher Education
A Double “Return” on Education
From across the political spectrum, voters rural and urban and suburban, everyone I talk to has a theory about what has gone so wrong with American education. From cellphones to laptops, the culture wars and the pandemic, teacher pay and teacher burnout, weak discipline and bad curriculum to collapsing standards, there are no shortage of...
October 2, 2026