The Texas Freedom Network will be focused Tuesday on two bills being heard by the Senate Education Committee: one that would create an expensive private school voucher program and another that could effectively end sex education in much of the state. Senate Bill 115 by state Sen. Tommy Williams, R-The Woodlands, would create a voucher […]
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Democratic Senator Agrees to File Tax Credit Voucher Scheme in Texas Lege
TAKE ACTION: Click here — www.tfn.org/novouchers — for more on how you can tell Sen. Lucio NOT to file his tax credit voucher bill. *** State Sen. Dan Patrick, R-Houston, has been promising that the Senate Education Committee he chairs will consider legislation giving tax credits to businesses that donate money for student “scholarships” to […]
Texans in Large Numbers Support State Funding for Family Planning Services
So we know that a huge majority of registered voters in Texas — 68 percent — say women having access to family planning and birth control is important. But what about state funding? Last month’s poll from the Texas Freedom Network Education Fund found that an even larger percentage of registered voters in Texas — […]
Support for Broad Access to Birth Control Crosses Partisan Lines in Texas
Texas lawmakers are considering various bills affecting women’s access to birth control in the state, including whether to reverse the drastic cuts the Legislature made to family planning services for low-income women in 2011. So we wanted to drill deeper into the numbers from last month’s Texas Freedom Network Education Fund statewide poll. To our […]
What's Good for the Goose…
State Sen. Dan Patrick, the Houston Republican who chairs the Senate Education Committee, on Thursday criticized those who oppose his bill to expand charter schools in Texas: “I want you to understand that when you testify, you’re not testifying against a bill. You’re testifying against 100,000 families who are are on the wait list who […]
