Safe Schools and Fair Standards Key points: Texas’s higher education code is not aligned with Supreme Court precedent on the correct standards for defining harassment. Texas statute does not define what makes conduct “severe,” “persistent,” or “pervasive.” The existing legal framework should remain intact but needs updated definitions that protect both free speech and students...
This issue of Veritas, the quarterly publication of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, features solutions to correctly measure poverty, introduces the Texas Prosperity Promise, explores whether free college is a good idea, a farewell from our CEO Brooke Rollins, an introduction of Lieutenant Colonel Allen West and the Booker T. Washington Initiative, and recaps the 2018 Policy Orientation and Visionaries Meeting.
On July 18, Gov. Greg Abbott will call the 85th Texas Legislature into special session to address 20 issues. These 30 days present a historic opportunity for the Legislature to promote liberty and economic opportunity for Texans. Given the breadth of the Foundation’s research on these topics, our policy experts have quickly compiled this 2017-18...