AUSTIN – The 83rd Texas Legislature should enhance the ability of parents, citizens, and educators to form home-rule school districts and campus charters in Texas public schools, according to a report published today by the Texas Public Policy Foundation. "By freeing schools from costly, inefficient mandates and empowering parents to better guide their children's education,...
Press Release June 26, 2012“Against challenges from Texas, 15 other states, and almost 100 petitioners from industry, the D.C. Circuit has upheld the EPA’s legal foundation for regulation of greenhouse gases. “The D.C. Circuit’s ruling for EPA repeatedly relies on the deeply flawed, policy-laden, and now outdated 2007 U.S. Supreme Court opinion, Massachusetts v. EPA. In that ruling, a...
Press Release June 26, 2012AUSTIN – With enrollment in online coursework growing at 10 times the rate of higher education enrollment overall, the 83rd Texas Legislature should remove barriers to the expansion of online higher education, according to a report published today by the Texas Public Policy Foundation. “The Future Face of Higher Education: Online Learning in the New...
Press Release June 22, 2012AUSTIN – The Texas Workforce Commission’s latest employment report continues the string of positive news about the Lone Star State’s economy, according to the Texas Public Policy Foundation. Texas’ economy added 12,500 net new jobs in May 2012, making this the 22nd consecutive month of employment growth. Meanwhile, Texas’ seasonally adjusted unemployment rate for May 2012 remained...
Press Release June 15, 2012“When the Texas Public Policy Foundation considered its options for keynote speaker at this year’s 10th Annual Policy Orientation for the Texas Legislature, there was no question that Governor Scott Walker was at the top of our list. His fight for accountable government, genuine democracy, and fiscal responsibility in his own state directly reflects the...
Press Release June 5, 2012“Rep. Ken Legler was a stalwart champion of the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s energy and environment issues. I have known him for 20 years. He was a self-made man who created a now highly successful metal fabricating business, operating in the United States and several other countries. “Ever the joking clown, Ken could be easily...
Press Release June 1, 2012AUSTIN – Texas Public Policy Foundation President Brooke Rollins will make history on Monday, June 4, as she hosts the nationally syndicated broadcast of “The Mike Gallagher Show.” Part of the Salem Radio Network, “The Mike Gallagher Show” is the fastest-growing radio-talk program in the country, reaching roughly 3.5 million listeners each week on 165...
Press Release May 26, 2012AUSTIN – The recent attacks on the American Legislative Exchange Council stem from its critics’ fundamental opposition to limited government and economic freedom, write the Texas Public Policy Foundation’s top leaders in today’s Wall Street Journal. The op-ed, “Why the Left Wants to Blacklist ALEC,” was penned by Dr. Wendy Lee Gramm, the Foundation’s chairman of...
Press Release May 17, 2012AUSTIN – Chief Executive magazine’s ranking of Texas as America’s top state for business for the eighth year in a row further validates the free-market, limited-government actions taken by Texas policymakers, according to the Texas Public Policy Foundation. “Businesses gravitate toward states and communities where they have the best chance to succeed,” said Chuck DeVore,...
Press Release May 4, 2012“Today, the University of Texas System regents have done right by the students at UT-Austin and their parents. Tuition and student loan debt at Texas universities have reached record highs, and higher education costs have far outpaced inflation and every other sector of the economy. This two-year tuition freeze is a much needed and long-overdue...
Press Release May 3, 2012AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation announces that former California State Assemblyman Chuck DeVore has joined its staff on a full-time basis as a Senior Fellow for Fiscal Policy. “Chuck DeVore has led a distinguished career in public service, from the Reagan Administration to the United States Army to the California State Assembly –...
Press Release May 1, 2012AUSTIN – The Texas Public Policy Foundation, one of the nation’s premier state-based think tanks, has acquired 901 Congress Avenue, a mere few hundred feet from the south steps of the Texas State Capitol, as its new permanent headquarters. “When I arrived here nearly a decade ago, this Foundation was a small operation with a...
Press Release April 25, 2012