Texas 2036's 2027 Policy Playbook offers state lawmakers research-backed recommendations on the issues impacting Texans.

The Texas Voter Poll interviews about 1,000 voters for a state with 18 million voters. Is our voter poll representative of ...

The General Appropriations Act is the most consequential bill the Legislature passes each session. The state budget funds the programs state agencies run and the resources they need to carry out laws ...

Decisive share of Texas voters prioritize policies over partisanship ahead of November elections. Ensuring all Texas students can read and do math at grade level 64 20.8 84.8% +79.3 Reducing ...

One of the clearest findings from our 10th Texas Voter Poll is that Texans share broad agreement on many of the challenges facing the state. Looking at the results by partisanship shows where ...

Texas voters are increasingly concerned about the state’s future, but their support for solutions on core-governance issues offers leaders a roadmap for strengthening voter confidence and moving Texas ...

No energy resource in Texas is growing faster than battery energy storage systems (BESS). VC-funded startups are surging here, there, and everywhere to build the industry. A search for “battery ...

The first two blogs in this series examined why Texas is considering performance-based funding for public universities and what outcomes a new model could reward. But creating a new set of incentives ...

The Texas Education Agency today announced the release of 2026 A-F Accountability Ratings for all public school systems and campuses on TXschools.gov. This year’s ratings show modest improvements with ...

The Texas Education Agency today released 2026 A-F accountability ratings showing 61% of the state’s roughly 9,000 public school campuses earned an A or B rating, up from 59% last year; 396 ...

Texas has been steadily moving toward tying higher education funding to student results rather than to enrollment alone. In 2023, the Legislature passed House Bill 8, which overhauled how the state ...

Every year, when the Texas Education Agency releases A-F accountability ratings for the state’s roughly 9,000 public school campuses, many of the same misconceptions resurface. We’ve collected a few ...