A major investigation in Texas schools documented heavy-handed police tactics used on students, including pepper spray, tackles, and Tasers, and highlighted what investigators say are inadequate safeguards to prevent overreach. Reporters tallied thousands of incidents and reviewed hundreds of police reports, identifying more than 2,600 use-of-force events from January 2022 through December 2025 based on available records. The reporting also found that many incidents were triggered by behavior that would previously have been handled through school discipline, raising concerns that the state’s school policing approach has shifted discipline into a criminal-justice style enforcement model. Taken together, the investigation’s findings point to a compliance and data-disclosure gap: there is no comprehensive statewide use-of-force record, and many districts and police agencies declined to disclose or limited responses to public records requests. For higher education professionals, the relevance is indirect but significant—Texas’ approach is a model of how K-12 policy can alter student trajectories into postsecondary readiness, campus safety planning, and institutional responsibility for student support systems.