And it shows that more of us are paying attention to who works for below-standard wages and without insturance. Who will wash the restaurant dishes? Who will clean our hotel rooms??
I also left Texas over 20 years ago for the same reason. I don't think Texas, as a state, is interested in being like the rest of the U.S. However, sededing and forming their own sovereign nation would put a gun-toting and vigilante-minded nation between us and our troubled nation to the south and beget wars almost certainly.
Standardized curricula would be a band-aide at best and regionally inappropriate at worse. Standardizing the process by which curricula are evaluated gives us a chance to see evidence-based curricula extend into the future.