If the 83rd Texas Legislature’s work on education policy could be distilled to two words, those would probably be “missed opportunities.” We begin our recap of the session that was – and wasn’t – with TPPF education policy analyst James Golsan.
The Truth About Texas Education Funding
A recent story in the Houston Chronicle misleads readers about Texas education funding. Let’s set the record straight. School choice doesn’t take a single dollar from public schools. The Texas Education Freedom Accounts program, or TEFA, was funded completely separately through an appropriation from General Revenue. Public school funding is at an all-time high of...