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The Actual Numbers Behind Texas School Closures
exas operating public schools rose from 9,180 in 2022–23 to 9,248 in the preliminary 2025–26 directory, a net increase of 68. After fall 2022, 340 schools were coded closed and were offset by new, returning, and formerly future schools. State-and-local operating revenue rose 8.50% from FY2023 to FY2025. TEFA participation began in 2026–27.
What The Current Texas Tax System Costs Texas Households
Every current Texas state and local tax, $192.3B a year, traced to who really pays it using the Comptroller’s own incidence study. See what the average household pays ($12,463), why the lowest-income families give up 31.7% of their income vs. 8.7% at the top, how renters, businesses and HD109 fare, and how Texas compares with other states. Full sources and a downloadable data workbook included.
Who Is Really Paying More? What the “OBBBA” Impact Actually Was
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act cut 2026 federal taxes for six of seven income groups, including $1,160 for a middle-income family. Using ITEP, CBO, and BLS data, we break down what households gained, what the health-credit expiration and higher prices cost, and why the Biden-era price increase still costs most families more than the tax cut saves.
Where Prices Went Up — and Why They Never Came Back Down: Inflation Under Trump, Biden, and Trump Again
Was inflation really worse under Biden than under Trump? We checked the viral “average inflation” graphic against Bureau of Labor Statistics data through September 2026, and it holds up: 1.9% under Trump’s first term, 5.0% under Biden, and 2.9% under Trump’s second term. The bigger story is the price level. Prices rose 21.4% from January 2021 to January 2025, which is 59.6% of the entire increase since January 2017. Inflation peaked at 9.1% in June 2022, and those higher prices never came back down. This report covers the month-by-month data with and without gasoline, what drove the 2021–2022 surge, the 2026 Iran-war energy shock, and what prices would be today if the Biden-era increase had not happened.
Do Teacher Pay, Funding, and Enrollment Decide a Texas District’s Grade?
Explore whether teacher pay, school funding, and enrollment size determine Texas district A–F ratings. This statewide 2023–24 analysis and 10-year review finds that student need matters most—and that results depend on more than a district-wide budget.
Modernizing High School Equivalency and Early College Access
The Texas High School Equivalency and Early College Access Act is designed to make it easier for Public, Private, and Home schooled students to complete their secondary education early and begin their careers and/or college pursuits earlier while simplifying life for their families. This bill sets the age to 13 and gives credit to ISDs whose student complete prep courses and the exam with them.
Protecting Families From Abuse - Modernizing Laws to Protect Victims and The Wrongfully Accused
This is a collection of 5 different bills that will provide additional protections, update protocols, set higher standards, reporting requirements, and give victims standing and a voice to hold courts accountable when they fail to take the proper actions to protect families from family violence, and to protect the wrongfully accused. Give the power to the victims to protect them!
Punishment That Treats the Cause: A Behavioral Health Alternative Sentence for Texas
The Texas Behavioral Health Alternative Sentence and Record Restoration Act provides to judges and juries an alternative sentencing schedule for eligible cases where Mental Health issues or drug abuse are clearly the cause of the criminal behavior in a defendant. If found guilty, the time is served and punishment fulfilled, but via treatment and recovery, especially for juveniles.
Misleading Posts - Did Governor Abbott Raise Your Property Taxes?
There is an increase in the number of misleading, and sometimes outright false, posts being shared on social media this mid-term. This post attempts to shift the blame to Gov. Abbott from local entities who set the rates, appraise the values, and collect the taxes on your property that have been increasing so steadily over the years.
Holding AI Companies Accountable and Protecting Texans
The AI Accountability Act holds AI companies and developers accountable when their automated technologies, whatever they may be called, perform actions that violate law, and sets the standard for determining liability when users abuse AI tools in the commission of crimes. Its about hold AI companies accountable for the tools they create, and protecting your rights in the process.
Equal Cancer Protections for Female First Responders and Long Term Research
This bill not only adds to the presumptive cancer list those female specific cancers that have been added to such presumptive lists federally and in other states already, but it also creates the Texas First Responder Health Research Program in order to establish longitudinal studies to improve the health and safety of our first responder departments in Texas.
The Texas Public Surveillance Technology Privacy, Security, and Accountability Act
Texans across the state have expressed their legitimate concerns about modern technology like ALPR/Flock cameras, while law enforcement has reported real benefits this technology brings for reducing crime. This bill protects Texans from government overreach while retaining the tools lawful, practical use to make our communities safer. Restrict government while protecting your rights.
Enforcing Your Rights - The Local Accountability and Compliance Act
When the 89th legislature passed SB12 and SB13 to protect parental rights and to prohibit the exposure of children to sexually explicit material, among other protections, it did not come with sufficient teeth to enable parents to defend their rights and ensure ISDs and local governments implement the policies set by these laws. This bill gives citizens standing to hold government accountable.
When Protection Becomes Control, The Reason for the Texas Family First Guardianship Act
There a many guardianship cases that occur in Texas that go unresolved for long periods of time, and cases where the ward placed under protection is in situations where abuse and corruption are rampant, this happens in Dallas County as well. The Texas Family First Guardianship Act is designed to stop the corruption, and give power to families to protect their family members and hold courts accountable.
Securing Texas Elections and Restoring Party Self-Governance
Texas Election Integrity and Party Association Act: a proposal to let parties choose open or closed primaries, protect unaffiliated voters, strengthen voter-roll maintenance, secure paper-ballot procedures, improve recount safeguards, and submit an elected Secretary of State amendment to Texas voters.