Testimony Before the Texas Senate Committee on Natural Resources and Economic Development

June 24, 2022

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.

Erin Davis Valdez is the policy director for Next Generation Texas, an initiative of the Foundation.

TPPF supported HB 1247 in the 87th legislative session, and in both the 86th and 87th legislative sessions, TPPF supported bills that would have expanded paid apprenticeships in Texas public high schools, using the existing career and technical education (CTE) allotment to cover the instructional costs for employers when they take on paid interns or students in a work-based learning context.

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