Texas made monumental education reforms in 2025

Published June 8, 2025 7:00am ET



Gov. Greg Abbott signed an $8.5 billion provision for schools into law this year, capping the massive educational reform agenda of Texas’s 2025 legislative session. While some bills did not pass, the legislature made strides in sending around 30 bills related to education to Abbott’s desk.

Club for Growth Action and the allied School Freedom Fund helped push the school choice agenda through the Texas legislature, with spending on the 2024 primaries. David McIntosh, president of the conservative group, said in a statement to the Washington Examiner that school choice is “the civil rights fight of our generation.”

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