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. Shortly before the end of the third special session, House Public Education Committee Chairman Brad Buckley released text of a proposal that has become the House version of the...
In 1910, my great grandfather and namesake, Rabbi A.D. Rosenblatt, arrived in Galveston. But he didn’t stay long; he and his family moved out of Texas in 1923 because A.D. felt that the available educational options did not meet the needs of his children. My grandfather repeated this cycle in the 1950’s, settling in Galveston...
This study compares property tax levy growth with population and inflation increases in Texas’ most populous cities, counties, and school districts. Key points Property taxes are growing faster than necessary in many parts of Texas. From 2018 to 2022, property taxes outstripped population and inflation in a majority of Texas’ most populous cities, counties, and...