Testimony before the House Appropriations Subcommittee on reducing the reliance of dedicated accounts to certify the budget by implementing a roll, ratchet, and adjust approach. “
Press Release May 21, 2014The Texas Public Policy Foundation today announced that former Texas State Representative Kent Grusendorf has joined the Foundation as Senior Fellow for Education. He will lead the Foundation’s efforts to bring the benefits of real education reform to Texas children, parents, and taxpayers.
Press Release May 20, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Health Care Policy will host the policy primer “Let the People In! Scope of Practice Reform in Texas” on Wednesday, May 21, 2014, from 11:30 a.m. until 1:00 p.m. at the Texas State Capitol Legislative Conference Center located in room E2.002 With the implementation of ObamaCare...
Press Release May 19, 2014ALEC to Launch its Local Government Initiative in Dallas
Press Release May 16, 2014Ending Fund 6 Diversions is Good, But Halting Education Diversions is Better
Press Release May 15, 2014AUSTIN – Dr. Thomas Lindsay, Director of the Center for Higher Education at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, issued this statement on today's 7-1 vote of the Texas House Special Committee on Transparency to recommend impeachment of University of Texas Regent Wallace Hall: "Today’s vote by the House Special Committee on Transparency — which conducted its...
Press Release May 12, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released The Mumford Model: Better School Districts Through Efficiency. Authored by Jess Fields, a Senior Policy Analyst with the Center for Local Governance, this report discusses the Mumford Independent School District’s success in becoming more efficient, having less debt, and ultimately producing better educated children. “The ‘Mumford Model’ as...
Press Release May 5, 2014Wall Street Journal Highlights the Texas Miracle
Press Release April 30, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released Enemy of the People: How Big Government Barriers to Competition Hurt the Public and Subvert the Constitution. This report, authored by Mario Loyola, Senior Fellow at TPPF, argues that since the Great Depression, government’s protection of favored business interests to the disadvantage of others has created a cartel...
Press Release April 29, 2014Current plans rely heavily on interbasin transfers to meet Texas’ growing water demand. But regulatory restrictions may keep those projects from being completed. That needs to change. “
Press Release April 29, 2014AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation today released the Policy Perspective Interbasin Transfers: A Water Solution for Texas. Authored by Josiah Neeley, TPPF’s Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment policy analyst, this report reviews Texas’ interbasin water transfers and the laws inhibiting the practice. “Texas’ prior appropriation system for water operates under the principle of...
Press Release April 29, 2014TPPF hosts Policy Primer event Cutting Edge Corrections: Leveraging Technological and Medical Advances to Reduce Crime
Press Release April 25, 2014