It has been almost a year since we announced the founding of the Texas Institute for Education Reform, and I thought you might have interest in a progress report. In December, we completed our statewide road show, which consisted of presentations and other speaking engagements to opinion and community leaders in 22 cities, along with […]
Archives for February 2007
Texas Higher Education Overhaul
There have been a number of recent appeals to Texas policy makers from business-related groups such as the Governor’s Business Council and the Build Texas Program to overhaul the structure and enhance the accountability and funding of the State’s publicly assisted institutions of higher education. In addition, the leadership of the two flagship universities, UT-Austin […]
Whatever Happened to the Ownership Society?
“Americans want government to protect their current jobs and tell them where their next job, and their children’s jobs, will come from. But government is not good at that.”—Gene Sperling, former economic advisor to Bill Clinton. Rich Karlgaard writes in Forbes Magazine that, for all the angst about the war in Iraq reflected in the […]
Forbes for Treasury Secretary
For quite some time, Tom Friedman of the New York Times has been harping about the enormous subsidies that we are providing to our Middle Eastern Islamofascist and other enemies in the form of exorbitant oil prices that finance their worldwide terror activities and the armaments that are killing Americans in Iraq, not to mention […]