Midlothian ISD voted this week to limit their budget growth to inflation and enrollment growth! This marks a tremendous victory for taxpayers and should become a model for school districts around the state.

The orwellian-named “Parent PAC” (which actively opposes parent involvement in the education of their children) has unsurprisingly endorsed the liberal lawyer in El Paso’s H.D. 78 race. They are apparently the only ones. The El Paso Times reports the conservative in the race has a 12-point lead.

Just six months ago the Houston Chronicle editorial board was chastising State Rep. Hubert Vo for being a “slumlord.” Now they’ve endorsed him. It would appear the Houston Chronicle just cannot stomach the idea of replacing an ineffective left-winger, even a lefty slumlord, with an effective reformer.

So Nick Jimenez of the Corpus Christi Caller Times is worried about voter turn-out on a school tax hike vote. But it is unclear what he is worried about. Previous school district ballots had dismal turn-outs. This year the school bond and tax propositions are on the Nov. 4 general election, a record turn-out year. Maybe Jimenez and other big-tax liberals are worried about too many voters asking pesky questions on election day.

In the waning days of a campaign, strange things happen. But few are stranger than the actions of Robert Miklos, the Democrat running in Mesquite’s open House District 101. It’s tempting to say he is ‘telling lies’ — in reality, it’s more like Miklos is living in a political fantasy world.

Nearly 60 percent of voters in the Duncanville school district voted against a massive property tax hike on Tuesday, while some 73 percent voted against a similar measure in Cedar Hill. The multi-million-dollar tax hikes were defeated by a $30 grassroots campaign. And a little commonsense.

Hats off to the Austin Independent School District for taking innovative steps to improve public education. The district is re-structuring their schools to provide more choices for student needs — including the option for all-boy and all-girl classes and re-vamped middle schools.

A candidate for state representative is actually calling for property tax increases as part of her general election strategy. She apparently hasn’t being paying attention.

Travis County Commissioners are doing their best to make sure taxpayers aren’t stuck paying the bill for county employees’ parking and toll violations.

Voters in Houston’s House District 149 have a clear choice: a proven reformer versus a slumlord. HISD school board member Greg Meyers is taking on incumbent Hubert Vo this November, and taxpayers statewide are watching the race with interest.