Written Testimony to the Texas Commission on Community College Finance

April 5, 2022

Erin Davis Valdez

Erin Davis Valdez is an education policy director at the Texas Public Policy Foundation. She has been passionate about the transformational power of education all her life, having been given the gift of being homeschooled. She taught for over a decade in Austin-area schools and served as an assistant principal at a charter school in Lewisville. These experiences have given her the opportunity to see first-hand how students can thrive when they have excellent options.

Erin Davis Valdez is the Policy Director for Next Generation Texas, an initiative of the Foundation.

Texas community colleges are particularly hard-hit relative to four-year institutions, suffering an 11.8% decline in enrollment in fall 2021 compared to fall 2019. This decline in enrollment will likely lead to lower “contact hour” totals, which account for about 89% of community college funding.

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