TPPF releases The Mumford Model: Better School Districts Through Efficiency

AUSTIN – 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, 2014

Wall Street Journal Highlights the Texas Miracle

Wall Street Journal Highlights the Texas Miracle

Press Release April 30, 2014

TPPF releases Enemy of the People: How Government Barriers to Competition Hurt the Public and Subvert the Constitution

AUSTIN – 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, 2014

TODAY: TPPF hosts criminal justice Policy Primer event and releases new study on how technological advances can improve community supervision

Current 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, 2014

TPPF releases Interbasin Transfers: A Water Solution for Texas

AUSTIN – 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, 2014

TPPF hosts Policy Primer event…

TPPF hosts Policy Primer event Cutting Edge Corrections: Leveraging Technological and Medical Advances to Reduce Crime

Press Release April 25, 2014

TPPF’s Marc Levin to testify before Texas House Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee

AUSTIN – Marc Levin, Director of the Center for Effective Justice at the Texas Public Policy Foundation, will testify before the Texas House Judiciary and Civil Jurisprudence Committee on Monday, April 28, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. in Room E2.010 of the Texas State Capitol. The Committee will meet to study the potential issues involving civil...

Press Release April 24, 2014

TPPF hosts book signing and lecture for The Once and Future King: The Rise of Crown Government in America””

Richard Fisher’s presentation at Texas at a Turning Point, an event held by TPPF on April 16, 2014.  “

Press Release April 22, 2014

Debt-laden Arlington ISD Set to…

Debt-laden Arlington ISD Set to Ask Voters to Approve Even More Debt

Press Release April 21, 2014

TODAY: TPPF’s Marc Levin to…

TODAY: TPPF’s Marc Levin to participate in “smart justice” panel for “Texas State of Mind Conference and Launch Event”

Press Release April 16, 2014

TPPF hosts Texas at a Turning Point: A Free Market Economics Conference and Luncheon with keynote Richard Fisher

AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation will host “Texas at a Turning Point: A Free Market Economics Conference and Luncheon,” on April 16, 2014, from 8:00 a.m. to 1:15 p.m. Central Time at the Sheraton Austin Hotel at the Capitol. This conference will bring together Texas’ brightest and most eminent economists to discuss policy challenges...

Press Release April 14, 2014

Gambling Expansion in Texas?

Gambling Expansion in Texas?

Press Release April 14, 2014