Kristen Paterson

The future of education is building in Texas. 📚10 of the top 100 public high schools are located in Texas 📚Texas educates more than 1 in 10 U.S. public school students 📚31 Blue Ribbon Schools in 2024—the most of any state!

This session, I declared teacher pay as an emergency item that MUST be passed. Texas will work to invest $750 MILLION to expand the Teacher Incentive Allotment program. We'll put even more hardworking teachers in our great state on a path to earn a six-figure salary.

Great news out of the Texas House! I want to thank the Texas State Representatives who have fought hard for school choice. School choice is the civil rights issue of the 21st century and I will continue fighting to advance it at the federal level.

Liberals across Texas claim that public schools must accept every single student. But just like private schools, public schools DON'T have to do that. Democrats need to stop lying to their constituents.

This is absolutely the MOST IMPORTANT thing said today during the meeting with Elon Musk and Donald Trump Listen to EVERY WORD: Elon Musk “If there's not a good feedback loop from the people to the government. And if you have rule of the bureaucrat or if the bureaucracy is in charge, then what meaning does democracy actually have? If the people cannot vote and have their will be decided by their elected representatives in the form of the president and the Senate and the house, then we don't live in a democracy. We live in a bureaucracy. So it's incredibly important that we close that feedback loop. We fix that feedback loop and that the public, the public's elected representatives, the president, the house and the Senate decide what happens as opposed to an a large unelected bureaucracy.” “You can't have an autonomous federal bureaucracy. You have to have one that is responsive to the people. That's the whole point of a democracy.” “If you asked, looked at the founders today and said, what do you think of the way things have turned out? Well… what we have this unelected, fourth unconstitutional branch of, of government, which is the bureaucracy, which has in a lot of ways currently more power than any elected representative.” Completely logical. We need huge reform.

Texas fully funds our public schools. I've provided more funding for public education and teacher pay raises than any other Texas Governor in state history. Public education funding is at an all-time high of $85 BILLION per year. That's a 57% increase since 2015.

Since I launched Operation Lone Star in 2021, Texas has: ✅ Transported over 112,700 migrants to sanctuary cities ✅ Built miles of border wall and razor wire ✅ Hired a REAL Border Czar ✅ Seized over 475 MILLION doses of deadly fentanyl Texas continues to hold the line.