Over the past few years, there has been a spate of media accounts exposing unconstitutional restrictions on free speech and debate on our country’s campuses. From university speech codes and commencement speaker “dis-invitations” to overt ideological indoctrination in the classrooms, our colleges and universities, whose defining mission is the free, nonpartisan quest for truth, are instead becoming prisons of conformism, devoid of the Socratic vision from which liberal education originated.
Invited Testimony on HB 4390 Presented to the Texas Senate Committee on Natural Resources & Economic Development
I am Jorge Borrego, postsecondary analyst for Next Generation Texas at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, and I am testifying in support of HB 4390. Thank you for the opportunity to provide comments before this estimable body. The Foundation recently conducted research examining the state of career and technical education in Texas public schools. What...