House Bill 1605 Testimony

March 24, 2023

Erin Davis Valdez

Erin Davis Valdez is an education policy director at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. She has been passionate about the transformational power of education all her life, having been given the gift of being homeschooled. She taught for over a decade in Austin-area schools and served as an assistant principal at a charter school in Lewisville. These experiences have given her the opportunity to see first-hand how students can thrive when they have excellent options.

My name is Erin Davis Valdez, and I’m an education policy director at Texas Public Policy Foundation. I’m here to support HB 1605 both from the perspective of its value as good education policy and also from my perspective as a former educator and administrator.

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