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In September of 2011, newly-elected Mayor Mike Rawlings and I announced the formation of the Commit Partnership. We did so in the belief that the educational challenges our community faced were too [...]
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Texas House Bill 8, passed unanimously earlier this year, brings historic change to how our state funds community college. Previously, state spending on the Texas [...]

As the regular session of the 88th Texas Legislature gavelled to a close on Memorial Day, it was clear that, while much had been accomplished [...]

Over 8,000 bills were filed in the regular session of the Texas Legislature this year, and fewer than 1,250 passed both chambers by the Memorial [...]

The Commit Partnership joins Texas 2036, the Texas Association of Community Colleges, the Texas Business Leadership Council, and the Texas Community College Student Advisory Council [...]

Currently, fewer than 1 in 5 Texas elementary students have access to on-grade-level reading content in the classroom, according to the Texas Education Agency (TEA) [...]

Early each March, educators, policymakers, and students from across the country gather in Austin to discuss the future of education. SXSW EDU is a yearly [...]

Today, the Commit Partnership, the Texas Association of Community Colleges, the Texas Business Leadership Council, and the Texas Community College Student Advisory Council signaled their [...]

High-impact tutoring (HIT), as described in the above video, outpaces other learning interventions – the average effect of this kind of tutoring program on academic [...]

This video follows a recent poll that shows 74% of North Texans support the state’s current system of assigning an A-F letter grade for [...]

In Texas, two-thirds of families have all parents in the household working, and therefore need reliable child care. However, nearly half of Texans live in [...]

Today’s teachers are responsible for preparing the workforce of tomorrow. Research demonstrates that the quality of a teacher's preparation directly correlates with their classroom performance [...]

Today, the Commit Partnership released poll results that show both conservative and progressive North Texas voters overwhelmingly support data-driven strategies in order to improve outcomes [...]