The sun set on the Sun Belt Years late Saturday night in Bowling Green, Ky.

To say North Texas didn’t go out the way it hoped might be a bit of an understatement.

The Mean Green blew a 14-point lead in the fourth quarter and lost to Western Kentucky, the final blow in its final game in a league it used to own. The fact that the Mean Green came tantalizingly close — at least on the scoreboard — in a 25-24 loss certainly didn’t make anyone in UNT’s locker room feel any better.

A year that started with talk of a bowl game and building on a 5-7 season ended with a 4-8 thud that raised a lot of questions,...

In 1876, voters approved state leaders' new Texas Constitution, which included establishing and providing "for the support and maintenance of an efficient system of public free schools."

Our forefathers had a vision that the state Constitution would provide a quality and equal educational system for all future young Texans.

Today, 136 years later, public education is threatened as legislators struggle with not only how to raise funds for public schools, but how to adequately and equitably distribute the resources for all Texas' students.

Funding public education continues to be one of the biggest...