Texas Public Policy Foundation

Grade inflation is what happens when students are being taught below their grade level. Texas is remedying this by increasing teachers' access to age-appropriate instructional materials.

Under current regulations, doctors contracted with Medicare and Medicaid face a $10,000 penalty for each instance they charge a non-government patient substantially less than the government rate. With ~60% of uninsured patients going without needed care due to astronomical costs, is it really prudent for the government to impose a disincentive for doctors to actually offer charity care to patients?

Former teacher Shelley Luther says parents should have options if their child is in an underperforming school. "When I was a single mom... I would have loved the opportunity for them to get to go to a private school. That would have been amazing."

Excited to share that our research paper on the true costs of EVs by Brent Bennett and Fmr. Rep. Jason Isaac is a finalist for State Policy Network's Bob Williams Award for Most Influential Research! The research has been cited hundreds of times across local, state, and national media outlets and has broadened the discussion of subsidies beyond the federal tax credits and into the more important realms of fuel economy regulations, environmental regulations, and infrastructure costs. It shined a light on how the cost of charging EVs is largely being socialized and how the prices of gasoline vehicles are increasing in order to subsidize EVs.

“What the HQIM does is a lot of the prep work, so teachers can focus on what they do best. Kids are making up for being three years behind in one academic year.” Texas' new instructional materials for teachers are providing a better work/life balance, and their students are finally being taught at their grade level.

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Texas teachers deserve a pay raise. What they do not deserve is for their administrators to regularly misuse funds and keep asking for more money to make the same mistakes over and over. That’s a disservice to teachers, students and taxpayers. We all deserve better.

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Texas' Data Privacy and Security Act is the strongest data privacy bill in the nation and it puts Texans in the driver's seat when it comes to their personal data.

TPPF's David Dunmoyer breaks down the dangers of letting companies like Google dictate the policy for autonomous vehicles. 📺Watch Episode 3 of The Rebel Tech Podcast: https://lnkd.in/gQ6fyrtQ