The Texas Taxpayer Savings Grant Program will reduce the amount of general revenue required to run our public schools-saving Texas taxpayers money and reducing the financial strain on Texas’ public education system.
Is the State Not Spending Enough on Public Education?
One state lawmaker recently accused Texas Governor Greg Abbott of not “spend[ing] the tax $ that you collected from us on our neighborhood schools instead…hoarding it in the treasury.” Setting aside the fact that the Legislature authors the state budget and dictates where money is spent—not the chief executive—this critique gets things wrong in another...