TPPF Statement on Session Spending

TPPF Cheers Passage of HB 1790 through Texas Senate

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Dr. Thomas Lindsay, Director of the Center for Higher Education, has published an article in Society, a scientific journal that publishes discussions and research findings in the social sciences and public policy. The article, “The Likelihood of Higher-Education Reform” discusses Allan Bloom’s The Closing of the American Mind...

TODAY: Media conference call on proposed Texas state budget

TPPF lauds Senate passage of House Bill 213

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation applauds the Texas Legislature’s final approval of House Bill 1296 that will improve the transparency of Texas public higher education. “This is a fantastic victory for Texas parents and students who will now be able to make better-informed higher-education choices,” said Dr. Thomas Lindsay, TPPF’s Center for Higher...

TPPF applauds final legislative approval of HB 1296

AUSTIN – The Texas House of Representatives has approved Senate Joint Resolution 1, a constitutional amendment that sets up a scenario to raid the Economic Stabilization Fund (ESF), or state savings account, for billions in the upcoming biennium. By tapping the ESF for billions at a time when state revenues have increased by record amounts...

TPPF statement on SJR 1

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation applauds the passage of House Bill 1926, a digital education bill that improves the accessibility of online learning. “HB 1926 takes a strong step toward expanding flexibility for online learning providers in Texas,” said James Golsan, Policy Analyst at Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Center for Education Policy. “Though...

TPPF applauds passage of HB 1926

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation will host a media conference-call briefing today, Thursday, May 23, at 4:00 p.m. Central Time to discuss the 83rd Texas Legislature’s proposed state budget and the risk it poses to Texas prosperity. Foundation experts will outline the current state budget plans and how it will affect the future...

CONFERENCE CALL CANCELLED

 AUSTIN – Today the Texas Public Policy Foundation cheered the passage of HB 1188 through the Texas Senate. The bill would limit the liability of employers who hire persons with past criminal convictions. According to the bill, “A cause of action may not be brought against an employer, general contractor, premises owner, or other third...

TPPF Cheers Passage of HB 1188 Through Texas Senate

  AUSTIN – Arlene Wohlgemuth, Executive Director and Director of the Center for Health Care Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, issued this statement on this evening’s passage of Senate Bill 7 by the Texas House of Representatives: “The House passage of SB 7 with the successful inclusion of Amendment 26 — the Leach...

TPPF statement on House passage of SB 7

AUSTIN – Today the Texas House of Representatives will discuss CSSB 1718, a bill that would create an “Achievement School District” (ASD) with a statewide Superintendent responsible for improving the state’s lowest-performing primary-education campuses. “Interventions in under-performing schools are too often ineffective for many reasons, including local political pressures and diffusion of responsibility,” said James...

TPPF supports passage of CSSB 1718

AUSTIN – Arlene Wohlgemuth, Executive Director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation issued this statement today on the budget deliberations underway in the final week of the regular session of the 83rd Texas Legislature: “The 83rd Texas Legislature had at its disposal close to $20 billion of new general revenue this session. To this point,...

TPPF statement on today’s budget deliberations

National studies show that 36 percent of college students learn little during four years invested in college.  To combat this, Texas should measure and publicize how much its students actually learn. “