State: Texas
Texas
Your Guide to Data and Services for Texas
SREB works with Texas policymakers, colleges and schools to help them improve education. From this page, find independent, accurate data, reliable best practices and ways to share scarce resources.
Texas Members of the Board
Greg Abbott, Governor of Texas, Austin, ex
officio (2027)
Debbie Crane Aliseda, McAllen Independent School
District Board of Trustees, McAllen (2027)
Brad Buckley, State Representative, Salado
(2024)
Harrison Keller, Commissioner of Higher
Education, Austin (2025) Executive Committee
member
Mike Morath, Commissioner of Education,
Austin (2026)
(Appointments to the Board are made by the Governor. Terms
expire June 30 of the specified year.)
Texas Members of the Legislative Advisory Council
Charles “Doc” Anderson, State Representative,
Waco
Brad Buckley, State Representative,
Salado
Donna Campbell, State Senator, New
Braunfels
TEXAS
Faculty Diversity by Rank
These state profiles examine the racial and ethnic makeup of college faculty by rank at various institution types. The data compare Black, Hispanic, and white faculty at two-year and technical colleges, public four-year institutions and private four-year institutions.
Texas: School Improvement Services
The Southern Regional Education Board works with educators and state and district education agency personnel in Texas and nationwide to provide support for continuous school improvement, rigorous curricula and instructional practices, teacher induction, professional development and instructional coaching services, technical assistance and program evaluation.
Find out what services are available for Texas districts and schools in this PDF.
Texas: An Early Path
An Early Path covers data and policies for each SREB state in Pre-K, elementary and middle grades in 2023. The reports also highlight important demographic data. These are SREB’s 11th progress reports to states on educational progress and the final set for the 2020 Challenge to Lead Goals. Each state report provides comparable data so states can see how they relate to one another, the SREB region and the nation.
TEXAS: FINDING A PATH
Finding a Path covers data and policies for each SREB state’s progress in high school, postsecondary and the workforce. Watch for reports on birth to middle grades in 2023. These are SREB’s 10th biennial reports to states on educational progress and the final set for the 2020 Challenge to Lead Goals. They provide comparable data so states can see how they relate to one another, the Southern region and the nation. New this year: sections on the K-12 teacher and postsecondary workforces.
Texas Featured Facts
from the SREB Fact Book on Higher Education
Texas-specific data on population, demographic, education attainment, enrollment, graduation rates, workforce, tuition, debt, funding, faculty salaries and more.
Texas
Student and Faculty Diversity
These state profiles compare the demographics of college faculty and the general and college student populations in each SREB state. The data compare the percentage of Black, Hispanic, American Indian or Alaska Native, and white students with the percentage of faculty in those groups at two-year and technical colleges, public four-year institutions and private four-year institutions.
Texas
College Affordability Profile
To help policymakers assess and improve college affordability in their states, SREB provides tailored reports on the policies, programs and prices that drive affordability. Each member-state profile details net price at different types of institutions, state financial aid based on need or other factors, student borrowing, and percentage of family income needed to pay for college at different income levels.
Texas
2020 State Workforce Outlook
Data on how automation and the COVID-19 pandemic will affect Texas’ workforce.
Get It in Writing
Making Adolescent Writing an Immediate Priority in Texas
A call to action for Texas middle grades and high schools to make writing instruction a priority. Writing is an essential tool for learning academic content in any discipline. Get It in Writing summarizes the status of writing instruction and learning, outlines challenges to progress and lists valuable resources, including “Elements of Effective Adolescent Writing Instruction.”
Five Years of Enhanced HSTW in Texas
Raising Achievement and Preparing Students for College and Careers Through Dedicated Implementation of the Key Practices
This report describes the results of a partnership between SREB and the Texas Education Agency to enhance implementation of the HSTW improvement design in the state. Between 2005 and 2010, nearly 50 high schools in five cohorts joined the Texas Enhanced Network to adopt this intensive improvement design.
