Commentary
Texas’ Primary Elections Provide Bold School Choice Opportunity
The optimal school choice approach should liberate education from the constraints of the monopoly government school system, draw upon successful market-driven solutions, and offer a simplified education finance system.
May God Save Texas
Saving Texas involves redeeming Texans and Texas institutions, including civil government.
I Took a DNA Test and My Race is Human
At some point we have to acknowledge the truth about our shared ancestry if we are to survive as a nation.
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Sparks fly as senators discover numerous toll roads with no debt on them, prompts call to remove tolls
The Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) dropped a bombshell at a recent Senate Transportation Committee meeting during the hearing on its interim study on the elimination of toll roads. As TxDOT Executive Director James Bass laid out the numbers of how much it...
Public Schools Are De-Emphasizing Academic Knowledge
Richardson ISD adopted its version of the 2008 TASA vision in 2010. It is called RISD Vision 2020. RISD hired a consultant to flesh out Vision 2020's details. The consultant's report was titled “The 10 Critical Qualities of Student Work”. One only needs to know a part...
Local School Boards Do Not Represent the Communities They are Elected to Represent
Local school boards seldom represent the community that elected them to serve. Rather, they get their direction from policies created by the Texas Association of School Administrators (TASA), the Texas Association of School Boards (TASB), and the state's...
A Representative Form of Government
“No taxation without Representation.” This was the rallying cry that precipitated the American Revolution against an English King who felt he could tax his subjects with impunity. The founding fathers were keenly aware of this problem and were very careful to take...
Are public schools becoming biggest school choice advocates?
An irony that has emerged is that it might be public schools who turn out to be the biggest advocates for school choice. Now, that wouldn't happen on purpose, but it would come as a reaction to multiple foolish and poor decisions on the part of public school...
Public Schools are not Teaching America’s Heritage
I am confident that if socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders had brought his campaign entourage to Texas' larger college campuses, he would have drawn 10,000 enthusiastic supporters at each rally. How could this happen in the reddest of red states? Where...
Letters to the Editor, Week of August 15
In this week's mailbag, we hear about taxpayers getting gouged, out of control HOAs, and obstruction in Hill County! Editor's note: Each week we publish commentary from our subscribers. Commentary may be edited according to community standards. Coppell ISD:...
Let’s Call “Robin Hood” What It Is: A State Property Tax
In 2016, property values in Collin County increased by an average of 8.9%. No doubt, with the move of Toyota and other large companies to the County, it’s a great place to live in, and in great demand, which drives property values up. However, there is a downside to...
Letters to the Editor, Week of August 1
In this week's mailbag, a response to last week's article by Michael Quinn Sullivan: Not Your Kids, and concern over county budgets. Editor's note: We publish commentary from our subscribers on a regular basis. Commentary may be edited according to community...