SJR 81 Invited Testimony Before the Texas Senate Subcommittee on Higher Education

April 11, 2023

Erin Davis Valdez

Erin Davis Valdez is an education policy director at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. She has been passionate about the transformational power of education all her life, having been given the gift of being homeschooled. She taught for over a decade in Austin-area schools and served as an assistant principal at a charter school in Lewisville. These experiences have given her the opportunity to see first-hand how students can thrive when they have excellent options.

My name is Erin Davis Valdez, and I am an education policy director at Texas Public Policy Foundation. I’m here today to voice our support of SJR 81.

Our Foundation’s public amplification of Texas State Technical College’s unique returned-value funding model goes back to 2012, as it was being phased in. Dr. Thomas Lindsay wrote in National Review Online, “One is hard-put to imagine an arrangement better suited to providing the accountability to which taxpayers are entitled.” Dr. Lindsay’s confidence in the
outcome of this apparent gamble was well-founded, because it was based on human nature.

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