Education Savings Accounts improve student access to private schooling. High-quality statistical research has established that attending a private school increases a students’ likelihood of earning a high school diploma. Low-income and minority students would experience the largest increase in their graduation rates due to access to private school choice, thereby reducing inequalities in the Lone Star State.
K-12 Education
What The Atlantic Gets Right — And Wrong — About The Mississippi ‘Miracle’
The highly publicized “Mississippi Miracle” — the implementation of teacher training, literacy coaches, and grade retention for struggling students that skyrocketed the state’s ranking from 49th in 2013 to nineth in 2024 — has created a well-earned outpouring of praise. Here at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, we have taken notice. In fact, the Lone...
April 15, 2026