That’s Not How This Works
What to Know: Many in the media are already saying that rural Texas Republicans will not support parent empowerment in the upcoming session.
The TPPF Take: Rural Republicans have plenty of reasons to support parent empowerment.
“Choice puts rural students on competitive ground with city kids because it results in more options,” says TPPF’s Mandy Drogin. “Florida started choice in 1999 and the number of private schools in Florida’s 30 rural counties has doubled over that time, from 62 to 119, as private school choice has expanded. They’ve grown by a third over the past 10 years.”
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Special Delivery
What to Know: The U.S. Postal Service has just established a new division to oversee mail-in ballots.
The TPPF Take: This could amount to institutionalized election interference.
“Among other problems, mail-in ballots can be cast by someone other than the voter, voter ID measures are harder to ensure absent in-person voting with a government-issued ID, and the secret ballot is more easily compromised by professional ballot traffickers who ‘help’ the voter fill in their ballot,” says TPPF’s Chuck DeVore. “Thus, mail-in ballots will be an increasingly important part of the Democratic election playbook.”
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Tearing Campuses Apart
What to Know: The diversity, equity and inclusion movement is tearing apart colleges and universities.
The TPPF Take: The mission of a university is the discovery, improvement, and dissemination of knowledge. The DEI movement distracts from that.
“How did Texas universities become bloated with administrators whose jobs are defined by the ‘woke agenda’ of increasing diversity, equity and inclusion?” asks TPPF’s Greg Sindelar. “The Texas economy is the 10th largest in the world. Innovation and productivity have made us a global force in many economic sectors. Texans want a university system that supports their efforts to continue to achieve in every aspect of commerce and intellectual life.”
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