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Vouchers Doing Wonders in New Orleans

August 26, 2010 On Education

My question is why wouldn’t this work in Texas? Do we have to wait for as disaster to give this a try? Oh, wait, we (the state of Texas) are $15 billion in debt, I would count that as a disaster.

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On National Education Standards

April 19, 2010 On Education

On Friday, April 16, the folks at the Cato Institute sponsored one of their Capitol Hill Briefings. The subject of this one happened to be National Education Standards. As usual it is excellent, and I want to bring it to your attention because it is completely in line with my thinking on the subject of [...]

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Let’s Have a Real Voucher Program

April 17, 2010 News

The Statesman.com reports that my opponent, Senator Shapiro is backing a plan to have the Texas Education Agency “pay for one SAT or ACT college entrance exam for high school juniors this spring and summer, prompting more students to sign up to take the SAT, which costs $45 , and the ACT, which costs $47 [...]

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