I have deep roots here.

I grew up in AISD public schools, graduated from Martin High School, and now have two kiddos in AISD public schools. I'm married to an Air Force veteran, Christopher.

Meet Katie | Vote Katie O'Brien Duzan for Texas State Representative District 94

I grew up in AISD public schools, graduated from Martin High School, and now have two kiddos in AISD public schools. I'm married to an Air Force veteran, Christopher.

I've worked as a business leader for over a decade and earned my MBA from TCU. I get things done.

Katie O'Brien Duzan grew up attending AISD public schools and graduated from Martin High School. She is married to Christopher, an Air Force veteran, and has two children who attend AISD public schools.

I've worked as a business leader for over a decade and earned my MBA from TCU. I get things done.

I'm running to represent my hometown district, HD-94, because Texans deserve better than billionaire proxy votes. I'll fight for more affordability, fully funded public schools and school safety, and a brighter future for ALL Texans that live, work, worship, and learn here.

Katie O'Brien Duzan | TTV

Katie O'Brien Duzan works in marketing and has held business leadership roles.

Katie works in marketing and has held business leadership roles.

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Ran unopposed in the 2026 Democratic primary for Texas House District 94 and will be on the November 2026 general election ballot.

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Katie ran unopposed in the 2026 Democratic primary for Texas House District 94 and will appear on the November 2026 general election ballot.

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2026 Texas General Election

ISSUES
Lower Costs
Fully Fund Public Schools
Lower Property Taxes
Raise the Minimum Wage
Protect Local Control
Freedom to Thrive in Texas
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Issues | Vote Katie O'Brien Duzan for Texas State Representative District 94

12. Educator Rights and Professional Associations:

State law allows educators and other public employees to voluntarily join professional associations such as ATPE and have membership dues deducted from their paychecks at no cost to taxpayers. Do you support or oppose allowing public employees to continue exercising this right? Why or why not?
Yes. I support allowing public employees to voluntarily join professional associations and have membership dues deducted from their paychecks at no cost to taxpayers. This is a matter of individual choice, workplace fairness, and respect for educators’ professional voices.

Supports allowing public employees to voluntarily join professional associations and pay dues through payroll deduction.

- Supports raising the minimum wage.
- Supports allowing public employees to voluntarily join professional associations and pay dues through payroll deduction.

Economy

To make schools safer, I support:
  * Fully funding state safety mandates and layered security, including staffing, facility improvements, and training, so districts are not forced to divert resources away from classrooms to comply with state requirements.

To make schools safer, I support:
  * Investing in trained professionals, such as counselors, social workers, mental health specialists, and school-based safety staff, who are equipped to identify concerns early and support students before crises occur.

To make schools safer, I support:
  * Rejecting proposals to arm teachers and staff. Educators should be focused on teaching and supporting students, not carrying weapons. School safety should be handled by trained professionals, not classroom teachers.

To make schools safer, I support:
  * Expanding family and community education on firearm safety, including safe storage practices, and distribution of free gun locks. These prevention activities should be completed >2 times annually, across multiple channels, with accountability for completion.

Supports fully funding state school-safety mandates, including staffing, facility improvements, and training.

Supports investing in counselors, social workers, mental-health specialists, and school-based safety staff to prevent school crises.

Opposes proposals to arm teachers and school staff.

Supports firearm-safety education, safe-storage practices, and free gun-lock distribution for families and communities.

- Supports fully funding state school-safety mandates, including staffing, facility improvements, and training.
- Supports investing in counselors, social workers, mental-health specialists, and school-based safety staff to prevent school crises.
- Opposes proposals to arm teachers and school staff.
- Supports firearm-safety education, safe-storage practices, and free gun-lock distribution for families and communities.

Public Safety

I support a comprehensive approach that includes:
  * Increasing the state’s contribution to educator health care, rather than continuing to pass rising costs on to employees and retirees. The state must treat health care as a core part of educator compensation, not an optional benefit.

I support a comprehensive approach that includes:
  * Stabilizing TRS-ActiveCare and TRS-Care through predictable, long-term funding, so plans are not forced into repeated premium increases or benefit reductions.
  * Reducing out-of-pocket costs for educators and retirees, including deductibles, co-pays, and prescription drug costs, particularly for those on fixed incomes.

Supports increasing the state's contribution to educator health care rather than passing rising costs to employees and retirees.

Supports reducing educators' and retirees' out-of-pocket health-care costs, including deductibles, copays, and prescription drug costs.

- Supports increasing the state's contribution to educator health care rather than passing rising costs to employees and retirees.
- Supports reducing educators' and retirees' out-of-pocket health-care costs, including deductibles, copays, and prescription drug costs.

Healthcare

Specifically, I will work to:
Increase and stabilize public education funding by raising the basic allotment, ensuring funding keeps pace with inflation, improving educator and staff pay, and providing districts with flexible dollars they can use to meet local needs rather than relying on narrowly earmarked programs.

Specifically, I will work to:
...
Protect public education from privatization by opposing private school vouchers and educational savings accounts, and the unchecked expansion of charter schools, which divert public dollars away from neighborhood schools and weaken transparency and accountability.

3. ESA Vouchers:
Education savings accounts (ESAs) redirect public funds to private or home schools. How do you believe Texas should fund public schools, traditional and charter, alongside ESA vouchers? How should ESA spending be held accountable to taxpayers?
I do not support the use of public funds for private school vouchers or education savings accounts. Public education dollars should be invested in public schools that are held to transparency, accountability, and nondiscrimination standards, not diverted to private or home schools.

I support strengthening the teacher pipeline by:
  * Expanding high-quality, affordable teacher preparation pathways, including paid student teaching and high-quality residency programs, so candidates are not forced to choose between earning a credential and earning a living.

I support strengthening the teacher pipeline by:
  * Reducing financial barriers to entering the profession by offering tuition assistance, loan forgiveness, and stipends for candidates who commit to teaching in high-need subjects or communities.

5. Educator Pay and Benefits:
The 89th Legislature passed legislation creating a new mechanism to provide only classroom teachers with tiered raises based on early years of service and their district’s student enrollment. While the raises were significant, they did not apply to all campus educators, and the program created a significant negative funding stream at the district level due to unfunded increased costs for non-salary compensation tied to payroll, such as TRS retirement contributions.
Do you support a state-funded across-the-board pay raise for all Texas educators? How would you ensure that compensation keeps pace with inflation and remains competitive with other professions?
Yes. I support a state-funded, across-the-board pay raise for all Texas educators, including teachers, librarians, counselors, nurses, instructional aides, and other campus professionals. Any compensation system that excludes key educators or shifts unfunded costs to districts undermines both morale and financial stability.

To ensure educator compensation remains competitive and sustainable, I support:
  * Across-the-board raises funded by the state, not local districts, so increases do not create new budget shortfalls or force cuts elsewhere.
  * Salary structures that reward experience and advanced degrees, including meaningful pay differentials for educators who earn master’s degrees, doctorates, and specialized certifications and who continue working directly with students.
  * Automatic cost-of-living adjustments tied to inflation, so educators do not lose purchasing power over time and raises do not require repeated legislative intervention.

8. Accountability and Assessment Reform:
The Legislature has passed a new “through-year” multi-test model under HB 8. What role should standardized testing play in evaluating students, teachers, and schools? Should test results continue to determine A–F accountability ratings or teacher pay?
Standardized assessments can provide useful information about student learning and growth when they are used appropriately. However, a single test or limited set of test scores should not serve as the primary or sole measure of student success, school quality, or educator effectiveness.

Accountability systems must be more comprehensive and reflect the full scope of what schools do. This includes multiple measures such as student growth over time, classroom-based assessments, graduation and postsecondary readiness indicators, school climate, and access to supports and resources. Reducing accountability to a single snapshot creates distortions, encourages teaching to the test, and fails to capture meaningful learning.

9. Parental Rights and Community Voice:

Recent legislative debates have focused on “parental rights” in education. In your view, what is the appropriate balance between accommodating the often conflicting wishes of individual parents while maintaining policies that reflect the broader community’s educational priorities and still providing consistency and an appropriate level of professional deference to educators?
Parental rights do not belong to any one political ideology. All parents deserve respect, transparency, and meaningful engagement in their children’s education. That includes the right to a secular public school environment, access to a broad range of books and instructional materials, and assurance that schools serve all students without discrimination.

Local school districts should retain authority over curriculum and instructional materials because they best understand the unique needs of their students, communities, and educators. Instructional materials should be aligned to state standards, but decisions about texts, vocabulary lists, supplemental content, and instructional approaches beyond those standards should remain local.

Plans to raise the basic school-funding allotment, adjust it for inflation, improve educator pay, and give districts more flexible funding.

Opposes using public funds for private school vouchers and education savings accounts.

Supports paid student teaching and teacher residency programs to expand affordable teacher-preparation pathways.

Supports tuition assistance, loan forgiveness, and stipends for teacher candidates who commit to high-need subjects or communities.

Supports state-funded pay raises for all Texas educators, including campus professionals beyond classroom teachers.

Supports automatic educator cost-of-living adjustments tied to inflation.

Opposes using a single test or limited test scores as the primary measure of school, student, or educator performance.

Supports school accountability systems using multiple measures, including student growth, readiness, school climate, and access to resources.

Supports public schools providing a secular environment, broad access to books and instructional materials, and nondiscriminatory services.

Supports local school-district authority over curriculum and instructional materials beyond state standards.

- Plans to raise the basic school-funding allotment, adjust it for inflation, improve educator pay, and give districts more flexible funding.
- Opposes using public funds for private school vouchers and education savings accounts.
- Supports paid student teaching and teacher residency programs to expand affordable teacher-preparation pathways.
- Supports tuition assistance, loan forgiveness, and stipends for teacher candidates who commit to high-need subjects or communities.
- Supports state-funded pay raises for all Texas educators, including campus professionals beyond classroom teachers.
- Supports automatic educator cost-of-living adjustments tied to inflation.
- Opposes using a single test or limited test scores as the primary measure of school, student, or educator performance.
- Supports school accountability systems using multiple measures, including student growth, readiness, school climate, and access to resources.
- Supports public schools providing a secular environment, broad access to books and instructional materials, and nondiscriminatory services.
- Supports local school-district authority over curriculum and instructional materials beyond state standards.

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Katie O'Brien Duzan

I have deep roots here.

I grew up in AISD public schools, graduated from Martin High School, and now have two kiddos in AISD public schools. I'm married to an Air Force veteran, Christopher.

I've worked as a business leader for over a decade and earned my MBA from TCU. I get things done.

I've worked as a business leader for over a decade and earned my MBA from TCU. I get things done.

Katie O'Brien Duzan grew up attending AISD public schools and graduated from Martin High School. She earned a Master of Business Administration from TCU. She is married to Christopher, an Air Force veteran, and has two children who attend AISD public schools.

Katie O'Brien Duzan works in marketing and has experience as a business leader.

#### Additional Information

Ran unopposed in the 2026 Democratic primary for Texas House District 94 and will be on the November 2026 general election ballot.

Katie ran unopposed in the 2026 Democratic primary for Texas House District 94 and will be on the November 2026 general election ballot.

ISSUES
Lower Costs
Fully Fund Public Schools
Lower Property Taxes
Raise the Minimum Wage
Protect Local Control
Freedom to Thrive in Texas

Jobs should pay enough to live on. Texans deserve the freedom to earn their fair share, build opportunities, and retire with dignity. With AI and a shifting workforce, we also need to invest in Texas workers and job training.

Advocates for investment in Texas workers and job training amid workforce shifts.

- Supports raising the minimum wage.
- Advocates for investment in Texas workers and job training amid workforce shifts.

To make schools safer, I support:
L134:   * Fully funding state safety mandates and layered security, including staffing, facility improvements, and training, so districts are not forced to divert resources away from classrooms to comply with state requirements.
L135:   * Investing in trained professionals, such as counselors, social workers, mental health specialists, and school-based safety staff, who are equipped to identify concerns early and support students before crises occur.
L136:   * Rejecting proposals to arm teachers and staff. Educators should be focused on teaching and supporting students, not carrying weapons. School safety should be handled by trained professionals, not classroom teachers.
L137:   * Expanding family and community education on firearm safety, including safe storage practices, and distribution of free gun locks.
L138:   * Strengthening threat assessment and intervention systems that prioritize prevention, communication, and coordinated response over punitive approaches.

Supports fully funding state school-safety requirements and layered security, including staffing, facility improvements, and training.

Supports investing in counselors, social workers, mental-health specialists, and school-based safety staff to identify concerns early.

Opposes arming teachers and school staff, saying trained professionals should handle school safety.

Supports firearm-safety education for families and communities, including safe-storage practices and free gun locks.

Supports threat-assessment and intervention systems emphasizing prevention, communication, and coordinated response over punitive approaches.

- Supports fully funding state school-safety requirements and layered security, including staffing, facility improvements, and training.
- Supports investing in counselors, social workers, mental-health specialists, and school-based safety staff to identify concerns early.
- Opposes arming teachers and school staff, saying trained professionals should handle school safety.
- Supports firearm-safety education for families and communities, including safe-storage practices and free gun locks.
- Supports threat-assessment and intervention systems emphasizing prevention, communication, and coordinated response over punitive approaches.

I support a comprehensive approach that includes:
  * Increasing the state’s contribution to educator health care, rather than continuing to pass rising costs on to employees and retirees. The state must treat health care as a core part of educator compensation, not an optional benefit.
  * Stabilizing TRS-ActiveCare and TRS-Care through predictable, long-term funding, so plans are not forced into repeated premium increases or benefit reductions.
  * Reducing out-of-pocket costs for educators and retirees, including deductibles, co-pays, and prescription drug costs, particularly for those on fixed incomes.

Supports increased state health-care contributions, stable long-term funding, and lower out-of-pocket costs for educators and retirees.

- Supports increased state health-care contributions, stable long-term funding, and lower out-of-pocket costs for educators and retirees.

Specifically, I will work to:
L60: Increase and stabilize public education funding by raising the basic allotment, ensuring funding keeps pace with inflation, improving educator and staff pay, and providing districts with flexible dollars they can use to meet local needs rather than relying on narrowly earmarked programs.
L61: Protect public education from privatization by opposing private school vouchers and educational savings accounts, and the unchecked expansion of charter schools, which divert public dollars away from neighborhood schools and weaken transparency and accountability.
L62: Invest in school excellence and safety, including fully funding special education, mental health services, layered security protections, secure storage education, and student supports.

3. ESA Vouchers:

Education savings accounts (ESAs) redirect public funds to private or home schools. How do you believe Texas should fund public schools, traditional and charter, alongside ESA vouchers? How should ESA spending be held accountable to taxpayers?
I do not support the use of public funds for private school vouchers or education savings accounts. Public education dollars should be invested in public schools that are held to transparency, accountability, and nondiscrimination standards, not diverted to private or home schools.

I support strengthening the teacher pipeline by:
L84:   * Expanding high-quality, affordable teacher preparation pathways, including paid student teaching and high-quality residency programs, so candidates are not forced to choose between earning a credential and earning a living.
L85:   * Reducing financial barriers to entering the profession by offering tuition assistance, loan forgiveness, and stipends for candidates who commit to teaching in high-need subjects or communities.
L86:   * Ensuring all new teachers receive strong mentoring and induction support, including protected time for coaching, collaboration, and professional learning during their first years in the classroom.
L87:   * Improving working conditions that drive retention, such as safe learning communities that promote positive behavior, manageable class sizes, access to high-quality instructional materials, adequate planning time, and reduced reliance on excessive testing and paperwork.
L88:   * Strengthening certification standards and oversight while limiting the use of short-term, underprepared certification routes that place unready educators in classrooms without sufficient support.

5. Educator Pay and Benefits:

The 89th Legislature passed legislation creating a new mechanism to provide only classroom teachers with tiered raises based on early years of service and their district’s student enrollment. While the raises were significant, they did not apply to all campus educators, and the program created a significant negative funding stream at the district level due to unfunded increased costs for non-salary compensation tied to payroll, such as TRS retirement contributions.
Do you support a state-funded across-the-board pay raise for all Texas educators? How would you ensure that compensation keeps pace with inflation and remains competitive with other professions?
Yes. I support a state-funded, across-the-board pay raise for all Texas educators, including teachers, librarians, counselors, nurses, instructional aides, and other campus professionals. Any compensation system that excludes key educators or shifts unfunded costs to districts undermines both morale and financial stability.

To ensure educator compensation remains competitive and sustainable, I support:
  * Across-the-board raises funded by the state, not local districts, so increases do not create new budget shortfalls or force cuts elsewhere.
  * Salary structures that reward experience and advanced degrees, including meaningful pay differentials for educators who earn master’s degrees, doctorates, and specialized certifications and who continue working directly with students.
  * Automatic cost-of-living adjustments tied to inflation, so educators do not lose purchasing power over time and raises do not require repeated legislative intervention.
  * Full state funding of associated payroll costs, including TRS retirement contributions and other non-salary compensation, so districts are not penalized for doing right by their employees.

Standardized assessments can provide useful information about student learning and growth when they are used appropriately. However, a single test or limited set of test scores should not serve as the primary or sole measure of student success, school quality, or educator effectiveness.
Accountability systems must be more comprehensive and reflect the full scope of what schools do. This includes multiple measures such as student growth over time, classroom-based assessments, graduation and postsecondary readiness indicators, school climate, and access to supports and resources. Reducing accountability to a single snapshot creates distortions, encourages teaching to the test, and fails to capture meaningful learning.

Parental rights do not belong to any one political ideology. All parents deserve respect, transparency, and meaningful engagement in their children’s education. That includes the right to a secular public school environment, access to a broad range of books and instructional materials, and assurance that schools serve all students without discrimination.

Supports increasing and stabilizing public-school funding, improving educator pay, and giving districts flexible funding.

Opposes using public funds for private-school vouchers or education savings accounts, as well as unchecked charter-school expansion.

Supports paid student teaching and teacher-residency programs to expand affordable teacher preparation.

Supports tuition assistance, loan forgiveness, and stipends for prospective teachers who commit to high-need subjects or communities.

Supports mentoring, induction, coaching, collaboration, and professional-learning time for new teachers.

Supports state-funded pay raises for all Texas educators and inflation-linked cost-of-living adjustments.

Opposes using a single test or limited test scores as the primary measure of student, school, or educator performance.

Supports a secular public-school environment, access to a broad range of instructional materials, and nondiscrimination in schools.

Supports public employees voluntarily joining professional associations and having membership dues deducted from their paychecks at no taxpayer cost.

- Supports increasing and stabilizing public-school funding, improving educator pay, and giving districts flexible funding.
- Opposes using public funds for private-school vouchers or education savings accounts, as well as unchecked charter-school expansion.
- Supports paid student teaching and teacher-residency programs to expand affordable teacher preparation.
- Supports tuition assistance, loan forgiveness, and stipends for prospective teachers who commit to high-need subjects or communities.
- Supports mentoring, induction, coaching, collaboration, and professional-learning time for new teachers.
- Supports state-funded pay raises for all Texas educators and inflation-linked cost-of-living adjustments.
- Opposes using a single test or limited test scores as the primary measure of student, school, or educator performance.
- Supports a secular public-school environment, access to a broad range of instructional materials, and nondiscrimination in schools.
- Supports local school-district authority over curriculum and instructional materials beyond state standards.
- Supports public employees voluntarily joining professional associations and having membership dues deducted from their paychecks at no taxpayer cost.

Meet Katie | Katie for 94

Katie O'Brien Duzan attended AISD public schools. She graduated from Martin High School and earned an MBA from TCU. She is married to Christopher, an Air Force veteran, and has two children who attend AISD public schools.

Katie for 94 | Issues

Do you support or oppose allowing public employees to continue exercising this right? Why or why not?
Yes. I support allowing public employees to voluntarily join professional associations and have membership dues deducted from their paychecks at no cost to taxpayers. This is a matter of individual choice, workplace fairness, and respect for educators’ professional voices.

Supports raising wages and investing in Texas workers and job training.

Supports allowing public employees to join professional associations and pay membership dues through payroll deduction.

- Supports raising wages and investing in Texas workers and job training.
- Supports allowing public employees to join professional associations and pay membership dues through payroll deduction.

To make schools safer, I support:
* Fully funding state safety mandates and layered security, including staffing, facility improvements, and training, so districts are not forced to divert resources away from classrooms to comply with state requirements.

To make schools safer, I support:
* Investing in trained professionals, such as counselors, social workers, mental health specialists, and school-based safety staff, who are equipped to identify concerns early and support students before crises occur.

To make schools safer, I support:
* Rejecting proposals to arm teachers and staff. Educators should be focused on teaching and supporting students, not carrying weapons. School safety should be handled by trained professionals, not classroom teachers.

To make schools safer, I support:
* Expanding family and community education on firearm safety, including safe storage practices, and distribution of free gun locks. These prevention activities should be completed >2 times annually, across multiple channels, with accountability for completion.

To make schools safer, I support:
* Strengthening threat assessment and intervention systems that prioritize prevention, communication, and coordinated response over punitive approaches.

Supports fully funding state school-safety requirements, including staffing, facility improvements, and training.

Supports investing in counselors, social workers, mental health specialists, and school-based safety staff.

Opposes arming teachers and school staff.

Supports firearm-safety education, safe-storage practices, and free gun-lock distribution.

Supports threat-assessment and intervention systems emphasizing prevention, communication, and coordinated response.

- Supports fully funding state school-safety requirements, including staffing, facility improvements, and training.
- Supports investing in counselors, social workers, mental health specialists, and school-based safety staff.
- Opposes arming teachers and school staff.
- Supports firearm-safety education, safe-storage practices, and free gun-lock distribution.
- Supports threat-assessment and intervention systems emphasizing prevention, communication, and coordinated response.

I support a comprehensive approach that includes:
* Increasing the state’s contribution to educator health care, rather than continuing to pass rising costs on to employees and retirees. The state must treat health care as a core part of educator compensation, not an optional benefit.

I support a comprehensive approach that includes:
* Stabilizing TRS-ActiveCare and TRS-Care through predictable, long-term funding, so plans are not forced into repeated premium increases or benefit reductions.

I support a comprehensive approach that includes:
* Reducing out-of-pocket costs for educators and retirees, including deductibles, co-pays, and prescription drug costs, particularly for those on fixed incomes.

Supports increasing the state's contribution to educator health care costs.

Supports predictable, long-term funding to stabilize TRS-ActiveCare and TRS-Care and prevent premium increases or benefit reductions.

Supports reducing deductibles, co-pays, and prescription drug costs for educators and retirees.

- Supports increasing the state's contribution to educator health care costs.
- Supports predictable, long-term funding to stabilize TRS-ActiveCare and TRS-Care and prevent premium increases or benefit reductions.
- Supports reducing deductibles, co-pays, and prescription drug costs for educators and retirees.

My #1 goal would be making Texas the best state for high quality public education. My priorities for public education are fully funding neighborhood public schools, strengthening and retaining the educator workforce, protecting academic freedom, and ensuring that every child, regardless of zip code, has access to a high-quality, well-resourced public education.

I do not support the use of public funds for private school vouchers or education savings accounts. Public education dollars should be invested in public schools that are held to transparency, accountability, and nondiscrimination standards, not diverted to private or home schools.

Specifically, I will work to:
Protect public education from privatization by opposing private school vouchers and educational savings accounts, and the unchecked expansion of charter schools, which divert public dollars away from neighborhood schools and weaken transparency and accountability.

Do you support a state-funded across-the-board pay raise for all Texas educators? How would you ensure that compensation keeps pace with inflation and remains competitive with other professions?
Yes. I support a state-funded, across-the-board pay raise for all Texas educators, including teachers, librarians, counselors, nurses, instructional aides, and other campus professionals. Any compensation system that excludes key educators or shifts unfunded costs to districts undermines both morale and financial stability.

I support strengthening the teacher pipeline by:
* Expanding high-quality, affordable teacher preparation pathways, including paid student teaching and high-quality residency programs, so candidates are not forced to choose between earning a credential and earning a living.

I support strengthening the teacher pipeline by:
* Reducing financial barriers to entering the profession by offering tuition assistance, loan forgiveness, and stipends for candidates who commit to teaching in high-need subjects or communities.

Standardized assessments can provide useful information about student learning and growth when they are used appropriately. However, a single test or limited set of test scores should not serve as the primary or sole measure of student success, school quality, or educator effectiveness.

The appropriate balance includes:
Respecting parents as partners through open communication, access to information, and meaningful opportunities for input.
Maintaining community-wide policies adopted through transparent, democratic processes rather than ad hoc decision-making driven by the loudest voices.
Preserving professional deference to educators, librarians, counselors, and administrators who are trained to make instructional decisions based on student needs, educational standards, and best practices.

Prioritizes fully funding public schools, retaining educators, protecting academic freedom, and providing well-resourced education regardless of zip code.

Proposes raising the basic allotment, indexing school funding to inflation, improving educator pay, and giving districts flexible funding.

Opposes unchecked expansion of charter schools.

Supports a state-funded pay raise for Texas teachers and other campus educators.

Supports paid student teaching and teacher residency programs to expand teacher preparation pathways.

Supports tuition assistance, loan forgiveness, and stipends for teacher candidates serving high-need subjects or communities.

Believes standardized tests should not be the sole or primary measure of students, schools, or educators.

Supports secular public schools, access to a broad range of books and instructional materials, and nondiscriminatory treatment of students.

Supports educators' professional discretion over instructional decisions based on student needs, standards, and best practices.

Supports local school district authority over curriculum and instructional materials beyond state standards.

- Prioritizes fully funding public schools, retaining educators, protecting academic freedom, and providing well-resourced education regardless of zip code.
- Proposes raising the basic allotment, indexing school funding to inflation, improving educator pay, and giving districts flexible funding.
- Opposes using public funds for private school vouchers and education savings accounts.
- Opposes unchecked expansion of charter schools.
- Supports a state-funded pay raise for Texas teachers and other campus educators.
- Supports paid student teaching and teacher residency programs to expand teacher preparation pathways.
- Supports tuition assistance, loan forgiveness, and stipends for teacher candidates serving high-need subjects or communities.
- Believes standardized tests should not be the sole or primary measure of students, schools, or educators.
- Supports secular public schools, access to a broad range of books and instructional materials, and nondiscriminatory treatment of students.
- Supports educators' professional discretion over instructional decisions based on student needs, standards, and best practices.
- Supports local school district authority over curriculum and instructional materials beyond state standards.

Texans are working harder than ever, and yet housing, healthcare, and childcare are becoming unaffordable. Utility bills are skyrocketing and need to be reigned in. Texas families should not have to choose between food or medicine.

Calls for District 94 elected officials to meet local needs without Texas Education Agency takeovers.

Criticizes rising property taxes and insurance costs under current Texas leadership and advocates for making homeownership more accessible for Texans.

Supports ensuring jobs pay enough to live on, advocating for fair earnings, job training, and investment in Texas workers amidst a changing workforce.

Supports fully funding public schools, supporting teachers, expanding mental health resources, and investing in school safety, while opposing the use of taxpayer money for vouchers.

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