Finally, a poll that gets it right! Public polling on school choice over the last few years has been almost all meaningless because most pollsters refuse to accurately test the policies that have been put forward by the legislature. Many polls also (intentionally?) use various terms incorrectly. For example, vouchers are not education savings accounts...
A well-known taxpayer funded lobbyist told a conference of school board trustees to weaponize teacher pay so teachers would be motivated to lobby the legislature and vote differently at the ballot box. This revelation comes from Rob McClelland, a Dripping Springs ISD trustee who was at a June meeting hosted by the Texas Association of...
The left wants Americans to believe that conservatives, and in particular former president Donald Trump, are a threat to democracy in this country. But they have now discarded millions of primary election votes for President Joe Biden and anointed, without any competition or debate, Vice President Kamala Harris to be their presidential nominee. The precedent...
It’s been a bad couple of weeks for Biden and new polling from RMG Research shows things are getting worse. Forty-six percent (46%) of voters think Donald Trump is likely to win the presidency to only 38% who think Biden will win. Forty-six percent (46%) of voters think that White House staff, cabinet members, and...
The following commentary is published on Thursdays as part of TPPF’s subscriber-only newsletter The Post. If you would like to subscribe to The Post, click here. The left-wing bias of the mainstream media is nothing new. It will likely be on display in the questions asked and coverage following tonight’s presidential debate. For most of my...
The following commentary is published on Thursdays as part of TPPF’s subscriber-only newsletter The Post. If you would like to subscribe to The Post, click here. Back to the Future Part II, the sequel to the blockbuster hit, was a terrible movie. Perhaps its most sinister element was persuading 12-year-olds across the country that hover boards...
The following commentary is published on Thursdays as part of TPPF’s subscriber-only newsletter The Post. If you would like to subscribe to The Post, click here. On Wednesday, Texans woke up to the good news that the Texas House will likely have a majority of school choice supporters in its chamber next session. There is still...
The following commentary is published on Thursdays as part of TPPF’s subscriber-only newsletter The Post. If you would like to subscribe to The Post, click here. While most of us think of the southern border crisis is the cause of a desperate people doing whatever it takes to escape where they’re from, there is perhaps a...
The following commentary is published on Thursdays as part of TPPF’s subscriber-only newsletter The Post. If you would like to subscribe to The Post, click here. Whether or not the federal government should deport immigrants living in the United States illegally has historically been a tricky issue for Americans. They understand that illegal aliens are breaking...
The following commentary is published on Thursdays as part of TPPF’s subscriber-only newsletter The Post. If you would like to subscribe to The Post, click here. On Tuesday, the Senate Committee on Education will have a hearing to monitor the implementation of the new ban on DEI programs at public universities in Texas. It’s not uncommon...
The following commentary is published on Thursdays as part of TPPF’s subscriber-only newsletter The Post. If you would like to subscribe to The Post, click here. The recent events at universities like Columbia, UCLA, and Northwestern demonstrate why Governor Greg Abbott and University of Texas President Jay Hartzell were right to quickly and definitively prevent protesters...
The following commentary is published on Thursdays as part of TPPF’s subscriber-only newsletter The Post. If you would like to subscribe to The Post, click here. New data from the Texas Education Agency is adding fuel to the debate over parental choice and financing education. Each year TEA publishes the salaries of each of the superintendents...