HB 3211 Testimony Before the Texas House Committee on Higher Education

April 3, 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 Valdez, and I’m an education policy director at Texas Public Policy Foundation. We support HB 3211, which would permit Texas State Technical College to open a campus in Denton County.

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