2017-2018 Legislator’s Guide: K-12 Education

September 28, 2016

The Honorable Kent Grusendorf

The K-12 Education section of the 2017-2018 Legislator's Guide to the Issues. This section covers Charter Innovation, Educational Choice, and Public School Finance.

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The new literature list currently being developed by the State Board of Education has the potential to reverse the crisis in higher literacy in Texas while teaching students a love of the history and culture that created our great nation. Opponents to the current plan, however, who mostly come from current educators and academia, reject...

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The highly publicized “Mississippi Miracle” — the implementation of teacher training, literacy coaches, and grade retention for struggling students that skyrocketed the state’s ranking from 49th in 2013 to nineth in 2024 — has created a well-earned outpouring of praise. Here at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, we have taken notice. In fact, the Lone...

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