Marc Levin, director of the Center for Effective Justice, presented testimony before the Texas Senate Education Committee regarding Disciplinary Alternative Learning Programs (DAEPs), September 20, 2006.
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...