Hello, I'm here with Lynn Davenport. Lynn, thanks for joining me. How do you describe yourself

when people ask what you're up to? I consider myself an education policy analyst, and I do

research on all things education. I'm a parent of former public school children. They're now

adults, and I have a grandbaby, and my daughter-in-law was a public school children. They're now adults and I have a grandbaby and my daughter-in-law

was a public school teacher. So I'm deeply engaged in all things education.

I've come across people before that like self-labeled themselves an analyst and it's just,

it's really a tough thing and you deliver that's the problem is uh you're

everyone that i ask who should i talk to is like you need to talk to her um so uh it's clear you know

and in going through the stuff that i've seen from you that you're you're seeing the field clearly

here um so i wanted to sit down with you and now there's going to be some stuff, obviously, where we disagree probably pretty heavily.

But I think that we're kind of arriving at almost like a horseshoe type thing here where somebody who typically would vote conservative and somebody who typically would vote liberal if you want to put it in those two boxes

have a lot of common ground absolutely um so i guess the first thing is i'll just tell you how i got

into this i was made aware i guess of what was happening at south lake and grapevine collieville

um i grew up adjacent to there and i live there now. And we moved to G-C-I-S-D. For me, like, I went to Richland High School. And for me, I thought, you know, if you could move your family to Grapevine, I thought the rich kids went there. And so now, like, the back I was able, my wife and I build something where we lived, and I, I love it. I love, I love grapevine.

I really, uh, I really love it there. And I love the schools. And so then the schools are in the news and you're like, what's happening there. And it's almost in some ways like a microcosm of what was happening at the state level. Um, so then I, you know, wanted to dive into that a little bit.

And then, you know, just as something as simple as I looked at last year in 2025 in the elections

in Copel, neighboring Copel, I think they had four candidates who spent under $1,000 and maybe three of them were under $500.

And in GCISD, we had a candidate. Tammy Nakamura spent 50 grand.

And her opponent who defeated her spent 25K in response to that.

So to me, as a parent, there's just an obvious what the fuck moment

if you're in a school district where people are spending half a million dollars to something's

going on. So my instinct is just like, all right, well, what are we doing here? So that's where I get

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