Friends of Texas Public Schools is proud to announce our annual Friends of the Year Dinner, a celebration of the immense value public schools bring to our state’s 1,000+ public school districts.

The Texas Education Agency’s latest A–F school ratings made headlines about “failing schools,” but the story is more complex. While 1,337 campuses received D or F grades, 31% improved year over year and F-rated schools dropped by half. Families deserve context, not confusion, about what these grades really mean.

Read the August e-newsletter here! Texas has many reasons to be proud, one of them is the hard work happening every day in our public schools. The newest STAAR® Reading Language Arts (RLA) results are in and grades 3 through 8 are scoring higher than ever.

Read the May e-newsletter here! Texas public schools are reaching more students—and helping even more of them graduate.

A Call for Fairness in Texas Public Education Accountability

Read the April e-newsletter here! The results are in, and there’s encouraging news for Texas public schools. The latest 2024 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) scores reaffirm what many of us already know...

It is an understatement here in early 2025 to suggest that public education is under assault. At both the federal and state levels there seems to be this perverse desire to do away with one of our most democratizing of institutions.

Scott Milder: Public schools are Texas’ greatest and most important investment