Every Texan

Texas public school districts will lose nearly $300 million in state funding to the voucher program.

That's according to a report from watchdog groups Our Schools, Our Democracy, and Every Texan.

Public school funding is directly tied to student enrollment.

The report estimates districts will face a roughly $8,000 cut in state funding per student lost.

It gave me greater perspective and a great perspective to think bigger.

The group Every Texan, they posted on their social media, Representative Garnett Coleman was a giant of the Texas house and to so many of us, a mentor, friend, and champion.

He believed powerfully in a better Texas and spent decades fighting for the people.

We're grateful for his leadership and the lasting mark that he left.

We talked a little bit on the data center topic about some unusual alliances that formed in that issue.

In this one, we heard, in this hearing, we heard from Every Texan, which is a progressive think tank, and also TPPF, which is conservative.

who both asked the Senate to consider expanding these state laws.

And every Texan spokesman, Shannon Holbrook, who's a researcher there, said something interesting.

He said that the group favors local control wherever possible.

And they're generally opposed to preemption.

due to minimum hire requirements, amenity requirements, that sort of thing.

And so Texans for Reasonable Solutions, which is a nonprofit focused only on this issue, said that we are seeing some cities work very hard to plant the impact of these reforms.