HB 20

"🚨 TEXAS HB 20 – What They’re Not Telling You 🚨
They say it helps students get job-ready. What it really does is sell off control of our schools.

Texas lawmakers passed HB 20, a bill that sounds helpful at first glance. It lets high school juniors and seniors earn job certifications while finishing their diplomas. Sounds like a good deal, right?

Look closer. This bill isn’t about helping students. It’s about handing over control of our public schools to unelected bureaucrats and private industry.

Here’s what HB 20 actually does:

🔻 Takes power away from local school boards and gives it to the Texas Education Commissioner and the Higher Education Coordinating Board—two unelected bodies who now decide which job certifications “count” toward graduation.

🔻 Forces districts to offer industry-aligned programs—but gives them no guaranteed funding to do it. If your rural or underfunded school can’t afford welding equipment, aviation simulators, or IT labs? Too bad.

🔻 Lets private certification vendors profit off public education. Once a credential is approved by the state, schools have to buy licenses or programs—no public bidding required, no local vote, no oversight.

🔻 Pushes students into career tracks based on regional job data, not on what they want to do, who they want to be, or what their community actually needs. It’s not about opportunity—it’s about labor supply.

🔻 No opt-outs. No appeals. No parent choice. Once a school swaps out core classes for credential courses, students are locked in. The district gets rewarded in accountability ratings—and your kid becomes a number on a spreadsheet.

This isn’t “college isn’t for everyone.”
This is “you’re 16, here’s a trade we picked for you—good luck.”

It’s not education. It’s workforce funneling.

It’s not reform. It’s corporate steering.

It’s not freedom. It’s central planning in disguise.

And the worst part? Most Texans will never know what just got signed into law.

We should be training kids for life—not just for someone else’s bottom line.

HB 20 is a power grab dressed up as job training.
It weakens local control. It privatizes curriculum. It leaves rural schools behind.

📢 We deserve education that serves students—not systems.

📢 We deserve transparency—not bureaucratic control.

📢 We deserve better than HB 20.

Follow me if you’re ready to fight for real accountability and real choice in Texas education."