Kimberly Reeves
@edwonkkimmy
The #txlege policy reporter. Old school. Substack: http://kimmyr512.substack.com paprgl @gmail.com. #atx CD9
🚨 The 2024 A–F ratings will be released August 15. These are the ratings that would have been issued last August if not for the legal challenge to Texas' revised accountability system. The appeals court has now denied the final challenge. 📉📈 #txed #txlege
Is This the Year Texas Republicans Finally Blow It In the Senate? thebarbedwire.com/2025/07/18/tex…
Just saw the @HOUBizJournal headline that Chevron is laying off 575 people with the Hess deal in the works. Bad news for Houston, @evan7257
Help me out, @JohnnieMo — way back when the lieutenant governor said they were shifting the first $800M to border security, weren’t we told that money was coming from a fund to upgrade statewide radio systems? If so, Nim Kidd’s comment this morning about the huge need to improve…
Finishing the first draft of the Mother of All Newsletters. As I've walked through it, I've realized all the bells and whistles I want to add. So it's a work in progress. Still, first message out SOON. Sign up at kimmyr512.substack.com #txlege #txed
Today would’ve been the birthday of Steve Sadowsky, Austin’s longtime historic preservation officer. He was one of those people who taught me what made Austin Austin. He also threw one heck of a birthday party at the Victory Grill. 📸: Steve at the Paramount Theatre (photo via…
Exchange in #txlege Senate shows how redistricting looms: Miles: "We spent all day today on the first day of a special session on what issue?" Eckhardt: "On a mid-decade redistricting that is not required by law." M: "Have we talked about any flood issues?" E: "Not once."
I asked ChatGPT to generate a list of thought leaders on Texas education policy, and it killed off @Kress_Sandy. We'll miss you, Sandy. (Okay, I will miss you.) #txlege #txed #RIP
If we want to use humans to grade writing responses, that's fine with me. But we have to realize that humans are: 1. Expensive 2. Slow Constructed responses are hard but so needed. How many times have you heard an employer say their applicants can't write?
On the eve of the #TxLege special session, let's talk about the inaccuracy of STAAR Reading Language Arts AI scoring, and how these errors provide undergraded results to students, parents, and teachers, that then propagate through the state's Accountability System. A #TxEd 🧵.
Keep an eye on this #txlege
lt gov explains that after the senator from district 9 (hancock) resigned this past june ALL vote requirements are now based on a total of 30 members and quorum is 20 senators #txlege
Theo Huxtable getting his ear pierced without his parents’ permission was an all-time great sitcom episode. Rest in peace, Malcolm-Jamal Warner.
Wow. Zerwas as chancellor. And I don’t say that in a bad way. More like a “we knew him when” way. #txlege
Divorce, adultery allegations against Paxton jolt Senate race in Texas #txlege washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/…
No one has made a “pox upon us” joke yet.
The #txlege comes to town and LOOK what they bring. 😜😜😜
Happy retirement to Margaret Gomez. I spent many a Tuesday morning at Commissioners Court with her. Factoid: Commissioners actually met the Tuesday after the WTC towers fell.
The #txlege comes to town and LOOK what they bring. 😜😜😜
What will be the first House committee hearing of this hot, brawling, contentious special session that is in the national spotlight today? Screwworms. #txlege
