Growing up in abject poverty in the inter-city of Ft. Worth, Texas, during hard economic times and now serving as a president of a charter school in a predominantly low-income region of the country, Kyev Tatum knows firsthand the importance of educational choice for all children.
Overspending is what hinders Texas public education
Steve Allison, an outgoing Republican state lawmaker, ramped up the school funding debate earlier this month with a commentary in the Express-News, “Abbott duty bound to call special session on school funding” (June 9). Are Texas schools actually underfunded? Let’s look at the reality. Texas taxpayers give enormous amounts of money to public schools. According to...