Issues

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As a public school educator, Nick believes that students are the greatest investment for Texas’ future. Public schools anchor communities and strengthen local economies. He supports:

• Increased Student Allotment: Bringing per pupil funding levels to a minimum of $16,000 per student.
• Transition to Enrollment Funding: Fund schools based on enrollment rather than attendance-based funding.

Decrease Classroom Size: Set a maximum student limit for class sizes at all levels. This will compel districts to increase the number of student-facing teachers on campuses.  

As a tenant in the North Texas area for many years, Nick has dealt with the rising cost of rent prices.  He advocates for:

• Rent Freeze: A statewide freeze on rent prices for 3 years. 
• Rent Lock: Locking in rent prices at initial lease and every resigning for 5 years.
• Rent Cap: A limit to the percent landlords can increase rent. 

This will give families much needed economic relief and an opportunity for financial stability and growth as we work to increase affordable housing supply around the state.

A healthy community is the backbone of local and state economies. Nick wants to:

• Protect the Right to Privacy: Ensure state and local government entities do not infringe on anyone’s right to medical privacy, including:
  • Ensuring equal access to contraceptives & reproductive care, in vitro fertilization, HIV prevention medication, transgender affirming care, and the right to an abortion.
• Protect the Right to Fair Medical Care: Every Texan has the right to high-quality mental and physical care covered by reasonable insurance prices. To accomplish this, Nick supports:
  • Expanding Medicaid: Enrolling Texas in the federally funded Medicare expansion.
  • Creating TexCare: Transition all state employees onto a single-payer health care option, which any Texas citizen can enroll in. 

  Creating Community Health Offices: Setting aside funds to establish departments of Mental Health & Social Work to partner with local Fire, Emergency, and Police departments to radically address pervasive issues of addiction and mental health.