Texas’ community college and school finance reforms to advance students’ postsecondary and workforce outcomes are producing encouraging early results. Now, a new Texas 2036 interactive tool gives Texas school districts and community colleges a clearer way to see how expanding career and college programs could build on that progress while generating additional state funding. “The…
A new Texas 2036 report finds that across 25 years and five planning cycles, Texas’ state and regional water planning process never projected the water shortage that pushed Corpus Christi and other Coastal Bend communities into crisis earlier this year. By April 2026, combined storage in the reservoir system serving the region had fallen to…
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 high-poverty campuses received an A rating this school year. The statewide results remain relatively stable compared with 2025, without the large year-over-year shifts…
This is a preview of our Texas 2036 newsletter discussing the state of childcare in Texas. To receive this weekly look at our work, sign up here. Texas Spends Billions on Childcare. Who’s Accountable for the Results? Texas invests billions of dollars a year in childcare and early childhood programs. But ask which state agency…
Texas invests billions of dollars each year in childcare and early childhood programs, but with oversight split across at least five state agencies, no single entity holds accountability for the system as a whole. Today, Texas 2036 releases The State of Childcare in Texas, recommending consolidated oversight of Texas’ childcare system under a single entity…
Just a few years into its implementation, Texas’ landmark effort to align community college funding around student outcomes is already showing early signs of success. Texas 2036 is releasing a new report, The Texas Model: Rewiring Community College Finance for Student Success, ahead of the Senate Higher Education Committee’s scheduled interim hearing on the community…