Jennifer Berkshire went to Texas to try to learn whether DeVos was helping or hurting the GOP. You may be surprised by her answer.
She writes:
The big question that fascinates me these days is whether GOP voters who care about their public schools will abandon their party as it embraces a Trump/DeVos education freedom agenda. And the answer in Texas is yes, at least when it comes to moderate suburban voters.
Twelve seats in the Texas legislature flipped from R to D in 2018 and education was a huge part of the reason. There’s been an explosion of public education activism in Texas in recent years, and GOP candidates, feeling the pressure and fearing for their seats, are now scrambling to paint themselves as the biggest lovers of public schools and their teachers around. I went to north Texas to hear for myself what this sounds like.
Diane Ravitch's blog 
Here’s the link: https://haveyouheardblog.com/dont-mess-with-texas-schools/
Texas is smarter than Florida. The people realize they need strong public education to move the state forward. Some predict Texas will turn blue by 2040. Others feel it will happen sooner than that. With the increase in population in the state, many of the newer residents are from California, a strong blue state. Conservative Texans are worried about the shifting demographics. In addition, Texas has a huge Latinx population. Many of these are young voters. We have just witnessed in Nevada what a voting Latinx population can do. If we add these groups to the alliance of suburban and urban blue voters, most of whom support strong public schools, Texas should be moving toward a more liberal future.
with great effort, this might be the year that not only the Presidency and legislature change over to blue, but state educational leaders start adamantly standing up to reform invaders
It’s about time Texans opened their eyes about their education system.