“Speaking to a packed crowd in Austin on Tuesday night after she became the first Democrat elected governor of Texas in nearly 40 years, Gina Hinojosa vowed to make good on a signature campaign promise: firing the state’s top education official,” NBC News reports.Said Hinojosa: “We are taking our children’s education back from a government that has failed them.”“Hinojosa’s promise to fire Education Commissioner Mike Morath ‘on day one’ drew sustained, rapturous applause — a reflection of how anger over the direction of public schools had quietly become a potent political force in an election that upended more than three decades of Republican dominance in Texas.”