Brian Birdwell*

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First elected to the Texas Senate in 2010. Current term expires January 2027.

*Birdwell is not seeking re-election in 2026.

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Member of the Senate Education Committee.

Endorsed in the 2022 general election and Republican primary election by the Texas Home School Coalition, which supports using public funds for private and home-schools, giving private and home-schooled students greater access to public education services, and limiting state oversight of private and home schools. Birdwell also received the group's endorsement in the 2020 election.

Birdwell was endorsed in the 2016 Republican primary and general election by Texans for Fiscal Responsibility (Empower Texans), a group that has supported budget cuts and limiting state spending on public education; eliminating educators' and other public employees' rights to use payroll deduction for payment of their voluntary dues to professional organizations; private school vouchers; and privatizing the management of existing public schools.