For decades, Texas Child Protective Services (CPS) has systematically placed children in its care at substantial risk of harm and even death, leaving children more damaged when they exit foster care than when they entered. Texas foster children experi- ence an unreasonably high risk of physical abuse, sexual abuse, suicide, and poor supervision in the state’s care.
2019-20 LEGISLATOR’S GUIDE TO THE ISSUES
A comprehensive guide to the most important issues facing Texas during the 86th Session of the Legislature. Among the issues covered in this Guide are education, taxes and spending, health care, effective justice, private property rights, insurance, telecommunications, transportation, tort reform, energy, and natural resources.