Texas is planning to make a huge public investment in space

"Further investment will cement Texas as the preeminent location for innovation."

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The general population leans slightly conservative, but the state legislature is so deeply conservative you might as well call it the red planet. It's going to get worse before it gets better, because those 5.9 million people are the ones writing all the laws and writing all the checks.

Yeah, Texas is heavily gerrymandered, and has been for decades. Before the Republican takeover, the redistricting was done mostly to protect incumbents. For decades now it has been gerrymandered to allocate more Republican slanted voting districts.

Despite the 'Robin Hood' laws, school district funding is local, and based on property values. As the state also has a balanced budget law, you'd hope that some of that money would go into the Rainy Day Fund, for use in the bad years. But it is Texas, and Texas is run by evil clowns right now.

 

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Irony: Texan! Now then--

I might be wrong, but I always thought that Texas' oil and gas revenues, in part, went to support the education system here in the state, since the state's initial inception as a nation in fact. Did something change, or have I been in error this entire time?

Certain specific Texas educational institutes get oil and gas money, as allocated a long time ago. UT, Texas A&M, etc. The newer lottery and gambling money was supposed to go to support more general education, but the details can be a little obscure.