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Can’t we all just agree on the data? Tom Luce offers a fresh debate to lift Texas

February 2, 2019
In the 1980s, Dallas lawyer Tom Luce went to Austin with Ross Perot to help lead the way on groundbreaking education reforms. They included more public school funding and a no-pass, no-play rule that required students to perform in the classroom before performing on the field. Now, as he approaches his 79th birthday, Luce is...
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What’s next for Texas?

December 5, 2018
Texas stands at the peak of prosperity today. The surging economy pushed the unemployment rate to a historic low, 3.7 percent, in October, and is on pace to produce 353,000 new jobs this year. That healthy economy, plus a relatively low cost of living and warm climate, attracted upwards of 1,000 new residents per day last year....

Tom Luce: “Texas Has Opportunity to Act Before We’re in Crisis Mode”

October 23, 2018
A significant chunk of Texas2036.org, the online hub of a new non-partisan nonprofit that hopes to use data and research to drive long-range planning and policy for Texans, is a series of “red flags.” For instance, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, population growth in Texas has been forecasted to increase 40 percent by...

Texas economy doomed without dramatic education improvements

June 4, 2018
As education goes, so goes the economy. And the state of education is in peril. That was the theme of the ElevatEd daylong conference Monday hosted by the Holdsworth Center at Southern Methodist University. Tom Luce, education reform advocate and founding partner of a prominent Dallas law firm, said 65 percent of jobs in Texas will...

Philanthropist Tom Luce a ‘shining example’ of Linz Award mission

April 16, 2018
It would be hard to imagine anyone in Dallas making more of an impact on the city than Tom Luce, his colleagues say. The lifelong champion of education and mental health was recognized Wednesday for his civic and humanitarian work in the city at the 89th annual Linz Award ceremony at the Omni Dallas Hotel....
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