“Texas is in the midst of a transformation that will fundamentally change how we approach public education. School districts are becoming more efficient in their use of taxpayer dollars; the Texas Supreme Court may soon help them become even more so. Virtual and blended education is enabling higher quality education of more students at less...
Press Release August 27, 2012“The Texas Public Policy Foundation stands by our praise of the goals articulated by the UT System’s Framework for Advancing Excellence. However, since the Framework was written, the current has shifted beneath the System’s Austin flagship university. “The University of Texas is to be commended for its implementation of the Collegiate Learning Assessment to assess...
Press Release August 24, 2012AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation has unveiled its newly redesigned website, Texaspolicy.com just in time for the 83rd legislative session. The revamped site boasts a simple, contemporary design and offers an array of new tools that improve its usability and aesthetics. The website, which offers features like the MyTPPF subscription option for...
Press Release August 21, 2012AUSTIN – Today’s ruling by the Washington, D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals striking down the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) is a clear victory for state authority under a federalist system of government, according to the Texas Public Policy Foundation. “The Court repeatedly notes the statutory division between EPA’s authority to...
Press Release August 21, 2012AUSTIN – Texas Public Policy Foundation president and CEO Brooke Rollins announced a restructuring of the Foundation’s communications team today. Chuck DeVore, currently a senior fellow in the Foundation’s Center for Fiscal Policy, will succeed Joshua Treviño as TPPF’s Vice President of Communications. Treviño left the Foundation’s staff earlier this month to become Writer-at-Large for...
Press Release August 16, 2012AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation praises today’s ruling by the Fifth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s rejection of Texas’ Flexible Permit program violated the federal Clean Air Act. “Over the last four years, the EPA has run roughshod over state authority as if states were merely branch...
Press Release August 13, 2012AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Policy Primer, “New EPA Rules and Their Effect on Families,” takes place on Wednesday, August 8 from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Foundation’s Austin office. Kathleen Hartnett White, Director of the Foundation’s Armstrong Center for Energy and the Environment, will moderate a panel discussion analyzing how...
Press Release August 6, 2012TPPF expert contributes to Heritage Foundation report on environmental conservation Kathleen Hartnett White pens chapter on “Clean Air Through Liberty” AUSTIN – Kathleen Hartnett White, director of the Armstrong Center for Energy & the Environment at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, is a contributing author to a new report, Environmental Conservation: Eight Principles of the...
Press Release July 31, 2012Joshua Treviño to join Texas Monthly New role with the Texas Public Policy Foundation AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation announces that its Vice President for Communications, Joshua Treviño, will join the staff of Texas Monthly as Writer-at-Large with the September issue of that magazine. Concurrent with this engagement, he will step down from...
Press Release July 31, 2012The Texas Public Policy Foundation enjoys a good debate, believing that, in our representative democracy, the more information citizens have, the better informed their decisions will be. During campaign season, clear information, unencumbered by half-truths and distortion, is often at a premium. As a liberty-minded, free enterprise think tank, we create and communicate ideas designed...
Press Release July 17, 2012AUSTIN – The continuing decline in Texas’ unemployment rate provides further validation of the Texas Model, according to the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Texas’ seasonally adjusted unemployment rate fell to 6.9 percent in April 2012, down from 7 percent in March 2012 and from 8 percent one year ago, according to the Texas Workforce Commission’s latest employment...
Press Release July 16, 2012AUSTIN – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency relied on four highly questionable assumptions in 2009 to drastically inflate the health benefits from far-reaching new rules, according to a new report published by the Texas Public Policy Foundation. “For the last three years, the EPA has justified a series of strict and incredibly expensive new air...
Press Release July 16, 2012