This testimony expresses serious concerns on public school accountability changes shared by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, the Texas Association of Business, the Texas Institute for Education Reform, the Greater Austin Chamber of Commerce, and Education Trust-Southwest.
Kudos, Tarrant County
Fiscal conservatism is alive-and-well in Texas’ 3rd largest county. As evidence, consider that Tarrant County officials last year approved a tax rate below the no-new-revenue (NNR) tax rate, resulting in an astonishing “13.17 percent” rate reduction. As impressive as that was though, county leaders took things one step further by creating a 10% local option...