John Reynolds

John Reynolds

Communications Director

John serves as Texas 2036’s main media contact, coordinating and advising on Texas 2036’s appearances in external media outlets. In addition, he plays a lead role in writing, editing and publishing the organization’s main publications, including its blog posts and newsletters.

Posts

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Back to School, Community College Edition

August 25, 2026

Source: Austin Community College, Collins College, Del Mar College, Panola College and Texas State Technical College This is a preview of our Texas 2036 newsletter discussing the strong early results from changes to the community college funding system. To receive this weekly look at our work, sign up here. Back to School: Community College Edition…

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Online Tool Shows Funding Impact of Expanding Career Education

August 25, 2026

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…

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Plans Never Sent a Steady Signal of the Coastal Bend Water Crisis

August 19, 2026

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…

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Texas School A-F Ratings Show Continued Progress

August 14, 2026

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…

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Texas Childcare: Billions Spent, No Single Accountable Agency

August 11, 2026

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…

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Report: Is the State’s Childcare System Working for Texans?

August 11, 2026

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…

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