Sunshine Week Statement by Peggy Venable, Americans for Prosperity-Texas Sunshine Week provides an opportunity to promote open government and transparency. Some legislation filed by powerful committee chairmen in Texas will help the sun shine on local government in Texas. Transparency in government is important to citizens. It enables us to know what our government is [...]
Thank you for inviting me to testify on behalf of Americans for Prosperity Foundation on SB 656. It is relevant that this bill be heard this week as this is “Sunshine Week”, an annual celebration of transparency in government. We at Americans for Prosperity Foundation support more transparency in government spending and taxes. SB 656 [...]
Statement by Peggy Venable, Texas Director Americans for Prosperity On filing of SB 1406 AFP-Texas and the Red Apple Project applaud Chrairman Dan Patrick and Sen. Donna Campbell for filing legislation to provide oversight of CSCOPE and the Regional Education Service Centers. CSCOPE was created and sold to the public with no oversight. Regional Education [...]
Parents Speak Truth to Power: It’s Time for Options, not Marches AUSTIN – Today, Americans for Prosperity Foundation – Texas released the first in five videos featuring parents who want school choice for their children. Today’s video features brief interviews with a number of parents, while future videos will feature longer interviews with affected parents [...]
Americans for Prosperity-Texas enthusiastically supports SB 2 by Chairman Dan Patrick. In Texas today, we have 315,000 students in over 500 failing schools. Kids’ futures ride on one five-digit code which they have no control over: their zip code. Public schools assign kids to schools based on their zip codes. We believe these students should [...]
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