Texas 2036: Data-Driven Solutions for a Growing Texas with AJ Rodriguez and John Hryhorchuk

The budget for the current legislative session in Texas is expected to be different due to the historic surplus.

The stability of Texas' state budget is due to a combination of factors, including a lack of state income tax, a reliance on sales tax, property taxes, oil industry taxes, and economic stabilization funds.

The Texas 2036 organization and legislators are discussing the state's K-12 and university systems.

There is a growing recognition that there are multiple pathways to earning a living wage in Texas, and that skills-based hiring and industry-based credentials are becoming increasingly important.

There are new ideas in community college funding by moving away from a model focused on credit hours and towards performance-based funding model looking at student outcomes.

What’s next Austin? “We are blessed to have so many people moving to Texas. We're blessed to have population growth. We need more water, right? We need more roads. We need to make sure our education system is working for our children.”