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"The Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board provides leadership and coordination for the Texas higher education system." Agency reports are available to download from the site.

Originally the Greater Texas Student Loan Corporation, since 2005 this organization has reorganized with a grant-making focus and a mission to support "efforts to ensure all Texas students are prepared for, have access to, persist in, and complete post-secondary education." As of October 2011, the Foundation has put $3million behind "the GTF Scholars: Early College High School Transfer Scholarship and Retention Program" for students who have completed an early college program.

"Unlike most traditional academic conferences, sessions at an unconference don't consist of one or three or five people delivering papers to an audience. Instead, they might feature project demonstrations, discussions, creative work sessions, or other formats that build on the knowledge and expertise of whoever attends. For the Texas THATCamp (and I think this is fairly typical at others), participants posted session ideas beforehand on the website, followed by a 45-minute scheduling process as THATCamp began. Topic headings generated by those initial session ideas were posted on the walls of a large meeting room, and participants circulated through the space to meet up with others interested in similar topics. After some productive chaos (which admittedly tested my structure- and schedule-loving personality a bit) the group developed a schedule of sessions that represented not only a variety of interests but also the desire to cluster certain topics into tracks. Like any conference, I frequently wanted to be in two places at once - which I see as one marker of the event's success."

The Texas Education Agency (TEA) is the administrative unit for primary and secondary public education. Agency responsibilities include: managing the textbook adoption process; overseeing development of the statewide curriculum; administering the statewide assessment program; administering a data collection system on public school students, staff, and finances; rating school districts under the statewide accountability system; operating research and information programs; monitoring for compliance with federal guidelines; and serving as a fiscal agent for the distribution of state and federal funds.

Statewide membership educational association that serves and represents local Texas school districts.

From the overview, "The Texas High School Project (THSP) is a unique public-private alliance dedicated to significantly improving the postsecondary readiness of low-income students with a focus on students in low-performing schools." Early college high schools are one of their focus areas.

Largest public school system in Texas; seventh-largest in United States.

The Meadows Foundation supports charitable needs in Texas, with approximately 13% of their money going towards education. One of their flagship projects is called Charitable Schools and encourages student-led community service in high schools and middle schools. There is no specific mention of early college on their website.

A program of the Greater Texas Foundation (GTF). Studying a cohort of 250,000 students who were in 9th grade in 1997, data showed that 75,000 "who graduated high school and enrolled in college left empty-handed." GTF then worked with FSG Social Impact Advisors to look at persistence and completion as they restructured their post-secondary scholarship funding. Two related reports are available on this page.

Mission: "Transforming the lives of children living in urban poverty through better health and education" The foundation is based in Texas, though they work throughout the U.S. and the world.

This online toolkit, published by Jobs for the Future, demonstrates how Hidalgo Texas built a successful early college program "where very student earns college credit before graduating from high school."

The foundation supports nonprofits and educational institutions that help support Houston, in the areas of arts & culture, education, environment, health and human services.

Another MCNC school wins the U.S. Blue Ribbon Award