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The workforce and public education are profoundly connected. Texas depends on a talented workforce to fuel its economy, and Texans depend on our public education system to prepare them for the jobs of today and tomorrow. But unfortunately, workforce and public education systems often operate independently, making innovation and improvement difficult. Texans deserve transparent, accurate, and comprehensive data about education and workforce pathways.
Students lost over half a grade level of learning in math and almost a third in reading during the pandemic years. But COVID-19 learning loss isn’t a short-term problem, and it requires more than a Band-Aid. Funding allocated to state agencies early in the COVID-19 pandemic to address its impact on students is set to expire in September. But students still need more help.
It wasn’t until my own child started studying reading at school that I realized that even the highest-performing schools haven’t fully embraced research-based reading instruction and are promoting ineffective approaches. We chose my child’s elementary school because of its academic reputation, but, at the beginning of our first year, the school sent home a well-intentioned tip sheet on how to help my child learn to read that left me scratching my head.
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