Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation applauds the Texas Senate Education Committee for passing Senate Bill 8 to the Senate floor for a full vote. This legislation will ensure that the parents of 5.4 million children are empowered to take a central role in their children’s education, through the protection of parental rights and by...
Press Release March 28, 2023Today, TPPF’s Life:Powered released a new research paper analyzing the infiltration of ESG into Texas pension systems through the firms they hire to assist them with voting their shares in corporate elections, also known as proxy voting. “Keeping Politics Out of Texas Pensions Through Proxy Voting Reform” is a timely analysis showing how lax oversight by Texas pensions has allowed proxy...
Press Release March 27, 2023Today, Mandy Drogin, campaign director for TPPF’s Next Generation Texas campaign, will testify before the Senate Education Committee, specifically on Senate Bill 8 and universal education savings accounts. In addition, Hera Varmah and Nathan Cunneen, from TPPF’s partner organization American Federation for Children, will be testifying about their successful experience with school choice programs in...
Press Release March 22, 2023Today, States Trust applauds the Republican effort to lower energy costs for working families. The common sense legislation, introduced last week by Majority Leader Steve Scalise, tackles the needs of everyday Americans by bringing down high energy costs, strengthening America’s energy infrastructure, and protecting our environment. The Lower Energy Cost Act will repeal counterproductive taxes on...
Press Release March 21, 2023Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation releases a new video the tells the story of two suburban moms who became education activists to protect kids from out-of-control school board members and other school district officials. In “No Recourse,” Dr. Mary Bone and Danielle Weston recount the events that led them to successfully run for school...
Press Release March 17, 2023Today, The Texas Public Policy Foundation released a video detailing instances of adult material, racist lessons, and anti-parent activity going on in schools across Texas. Research shows these examples occur in rural, suburban, and urban schools at all grade levels among every socioeconomic stratum and regardless of how high or low a school or district...
Press Release March 15, 2023As Mexican drug cartels have unleashed a wave of violence in Mexico and on the border, lawmakers must designate them as foreign terrorist organizations, according to new research from the Texas Public Policy Foundation. The research, “Designating the Mexican Cartels as Terrorist Organizations,” reveals that despite concerns of increased asylum claims, labeling cartels as FTOs...
Press Release March 15, 2023Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation commends Sen. Brian Birdwell and the Texas House for their leadership in helping secure the Texas-Mexico border. These pieces of legislation are geared toward providing the state with the tools necessary to better ensure the safety of Texans, in the face of federal government failure. Senate Bill 2424 would...
Press Release March 14, 2023Today, the Texas Senate passed Senate Bill 2, a proposal that makes it a felony to engage in illegal voting. The bill now heads to the Texas House for approval. TPPF Chief National Initiatives Officer Chuck DeVore released the following statement: “Texans deserve free and fair elections. Threats to that ideal should not be tolerated and...
Press Release March 13, 2023Following the introduction of parent empowerment legislation in the Texas House and Senate, the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s Mandy Drogin released the following statement: “Just a few weeks after Governor Abbott made education freedom a priority item for this legislative session, the House and Senate have successfully introduced several proposals that will ensure that all...
Press Release March 10, 2023Today, the Texas Senate filed Senate Bill 2424, which would make entering Texas illegally a state crime, allowing the state to better protect its southern border. TPPF Campaign Director Carine Martinez released the following the statement: “Texas continues to step in while the federal government has relinquished its responsibility to provide a secure border for...
Press Release March 10, 2023Today, the Texas Public Policy Foundation applauds Sen. Charles Schwertner and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick for making cost allocation of ancillary and reliability services a priority legislative item for the Senate by including it in Senate Bill 7. The reforms proposed will help reduce the variability of electricity supply by incentivizing generators to firm up...
Press Release March 10, 2023