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.
Eliminating the School M&O Property Tax
Texas has some of the highest property taxes in the nation. In 2014, the Tax Foundation reported that Texas had the sixth highest effective property tax rate. In 2016, more than 5,100 local tax jurisdictions levied $56.1 billion in property taxes, or $2,000 on average for every Texan—man, woman, and child. And property taxes continue...