The U.S. Department of Education puts the Texas graduation rate at 71.9 percent — ranking the state 36th nationally. That would put the dropout population for each year’s graduating class at roughly 130,000 — or about the size of McAllen. Another estimate, using a formula called the Cumulative Promotion Index, indicates only 64.5 percent graduate [...]
Election returns had one message: overwhelming number of voters want to limit spending and want more school choice in Texas. Texas primary elections are behind us and some interesting run-offs will dominate the Texas media for the next two months leading to the July 31 run-off elections. Never mind that Texas gave Mitt Romney the [...]
This is a very troubling story. This Houston honor student is jailed for missing school while holding down two jobs to help her family. It appears the school is more interested in the per-day funding they get each day a student is in school than they are in the student. That, my friends, is a [...]
Are funds taxpayers approved in bond initiatives for specific projects being used for other projects? Yes. We may see it as a betrayal of taxpayer trust, but it is happening. Case in point… The Ways and Means Committee requested at their April 3, 2012, meeting, information regarding the use of bond money for purposes other [...]
The US ranks 10th in the international economic freedom rankings. And where we were recently 3rd, we are headed in the wrong direction — we are soon to be between 15th to 20th. Economic freedom rates the size of government, regulation, sound money practices, free trade and the rule of law. While the US should [...]
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