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Preparing Texas For Dramatic Population Growth?

March 28, 2019

The details of Texas 2036 – a long-term plan to sustain Texas as the “best place to live and do business” through the state’s bicentennial and beyond – are still in the works. Tom Luce, an SMU-alum and member of the Library of Congress Board, is championing the project. Luce spoke about Texas 2036 in...

A Conversation With Tom Luce

March 1, 2019

Tom Luce, a Dallas attorney, has been involved in a variety of state, federal and civic projects. He played a key role in Texas education reform in the 1980s and served as an undersecretary for education during the George W. Bush administration. He is currently leading Texas 2036, which aims to create a policy roadmap...

Can’t we all just agree on the data? Tom Luce offers a fresh debate to lift Texas

February 2, 2019

In the 1980s, Dallas lawyer Tom Luce went to Austin with Ross Perot to help lead the way on groundbreaking education reforms. They included more public school funding and a no-pass, no-play rule that required students to perform in the classroom before performing on the field. Now, as he approaches his 79th birthday, Luce is...

What’s next for Texas?

December 5, 2018

Texas stands at the peak of prosperity today. The surging economy pushed the unemployment rate to a historic low, 3.7 percent, in October, and is on pace to produce 353,000 new jobs this year. That healthy economy, plus a relatively low cost of living and warm climate, attracted upwards of 1,000 new residents per day last year....

Tom Luce: “Texas Has Opportunity to Act Before We’re in Crisis Mode”

October 23, 2018

A significant chunk of Texas2036.org, the online hub of a new non-partisan nonprofit that hopes to use data and research to drive long-range planning and policy for Texans, is a series of “red flags.” For instance, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, population growth in Texas has been forecasted to increase 40 percent by...

Texas economy doomed without dramatic education improvements

June 4, 2018

As education goes, so goes the economy. And the state of education is in peril. That was the theme of the ElevatEd daylong conference Monday hosted by the Holdsworth Center at Southern Methodist University. Tom Luce, education reform advocate and founding partner of a prominent Dallas law firm, said 65 percent of jobs in Texas will...

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