Brooke Dollens Terry, education policy analyst in the Foundation’s Center for Education Policy, presented this testimony on SB 1643 regarding teacher quality before the Senate Education Committee.
K-12 Education
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...
October 6, 2026