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John Colyandro
Expanding Opportunity: SCL Recognition Helps Meet Demand for Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA)1
By recognizing the Society for Classical Learning (SCL) as an accreditor, the Texas Education Agency (TEA) has taken a necessary step to increase the available supply of accredited private schools, directly addressing a critical choke point for the Texas Education Freedom Accounts (TEFA) initiative.
via Texas Tribune
Riding political wins, a once-restrained Gov. Greg Abbott is increasingly steamrolling foes
Loaded with $43 million in his campaign coffers and facing no serious electoral threat, Gov. Greg Abbott in 2017 plunged into uncharted waters for a Texas governor: the state House primaries.
The first-term governor mobilized his support — an arsenal of endorsements, ads and stump speeches — behind three candidates taking on incumbent representatives he had clashed with in the state’s lower chamber. It was, at the time, somewhat remarkable for Texas’ top elected official to enter the trenches against lawmakers from his own party. The House speaker, a Republican, said Abbott was putting one of the seats at risk of falling into Democratic hands.
via Austin American-Statesman
Race takes center stage in GOP push to redraw Texas congressional map
via Houston Chronicle
How Greg Abbott made the Texas border America’s problem
For three years now, Abbott has delivered a near daily version of the same indictment, hounding President Joe Biden on immigration in press conferences, on social media, in Fox News appearances and trips to South Texas.
via Newsweek
Greg Abbott Faces New Republican Test
via San Antonio Express-News
Vouchers, school spending take center stage after Texas primary upsets
via S&P Global
Texas wants to be a leader in CCUS, but there’s an ownership question to resolve first
Texas is one of the largest emitting states in the US and stands to become ground zero of the carbon management industry. But unlike other states, Texas law provides no clarity on ownership rights of pore space — the empty underground cavities where companies can pump and permanently store captured CO2.
via Odessa American