Election 2026
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Issue record
In short
Paxton's campaign says he will protect parental rights and fight what it calls woke indoctrination in classrooms and men in girls' sports. Talarico's campaign backs pre-K for all 3- and 4-year-olds, reading and math grants and more school meals, and opposes federal vouchers. Brown's campaign would abolish the federal Department of Education, offer tuition tax credits instead of vouchers, and back charter schools and home schooling.
Campaign positions
His campaign's issues page reaches education through its section on conservative principles, which says he will stand with President Trump to defend the unborn, protect gun rights and defeat what it calls the radical transgender movement putting men in girls' sports and woke indoctrination in classrooms, and through its section on the Democratic candidate, where it says he will protect parental rights. It proposes no schools, funding or curriculum measure.
His campaign's education section is the longest on his site: grants for evidence-based reading and mathematics instruction, expansion of teacher-training programmes, opposition to federal private-school voucher programmes, universal pre-kindergarten for three- and four-year-olds with protection for Head Start, protection of federal special-education oversight, career and technical pathways from middle school, expansion of the school lunch and breakfast programmes, and guidelines for the use of artificial intelligence in classrooms.
His campaign would abolish the federal Department of Education, which it says educates nobody and only imposes regulation on local schools, and would replace vouchers with tuition tax credits for anyone paying a child's private-school fees, on the argument that vouchers would lead to government control of private schools. He supports charter schools and home schooling and calls for "the complete separation of school and state".
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Ken Paxton for Senate · Reviewed Oct 12, 2026
Health-care pledge re-read October 12, 2026; no visible statement date. The campaign's whole platform, in seven sections: carrying President Trump's agenda, taking on food and pharmaceutical companies, the border, conservative principles including gun rights and transgender policy, an America-first foreign policy, fiscal restraint and energy, the case against the Democratic candidate, and support for cryptocurrency naming the CLARITY Act. It proposes no ethics, disclosure, term-limit or stock-trading measure, and the words ethics, term limits, campaign finance and disclosure appear nowhere on it.
candidate statement
For: Ken Paxton: campaign position
Talarico for Texas · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026
Carries his account of teaching on the west side of San Antonio, the claim that he served on the Public Education Committee in each of his four terms, his opposition to private-school vouchers, and a federal programme on reading and mathematics, teacher training, universal pre-kindergarten, special education and school meals.
candidate statement
For: James Talarico: campaign position
Ted Brown Election Committee · Reviewed Sep 14, 2026
The whole campaign site is this one served page; tedbrown.org itself is a redirect to it, and every navigation item, Home, About, Platform, Media, Quotes, Contact and Donate, is an anchor within it. Its twelve platform sections are digital privacy, taxes, immigration, foreign policy, free trade, emergency powers, gun rights, the war on drugs, justice reform, education, police reform and health care. It carries the banner claim about special interests, his biography, his party offices, and links to X and Facebook and to no other account. It also carries a News Coverage index of dated outside articles about his campaign, which this desk did not search; the Media section lists interviews and the Quotes section lists quotations from others.
candidate statement
For: Ted Brown: campaign position