Texas Gov. Greg Abbott wants half of the state’s $27 billion budget surplus to go toward property tax relief. House Speaker Dade Phelan and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick are offering more tepid approaches. Yesterday we asked readers how much of the surplus should be applied to...

While the election of the Speaker of the Texas House – the third most powerful position in state government – is restricted only to the 150 members of the chamber, we asked whom readers would select if they could vote. Only two members (both Republicans) have...

School choice is a human rights issue, no matter where you live. But not all schools are the same. Rural public schools tend to outperform their urban counterparts for a variety of reasons. The consequence is that politicians often assume that rural voters have less...

In the One Click Survey, readers were asked which of six choices most closely described how they thought Texas lawmakers should approach education policy. We used the exact same the language as a survey sent to more than 25,000 Texas classroom teachers. (Want to know...

We asked what readers were most thankful this year. Do you want to participate in our weekly surveys? Subscribe to the Texas Minute! Here is a sample of the responses we received. “I am most thankful for coming to the U.S. 61 years ago, fleeing from communism in Cuba....