Foster Care Reform, The Bell Tolls on the State House, and Bye-Bye STAAR Test!

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The Right Idea

Texas Public Policy Foundation

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The Right Idea: The Texas Public Policy Foundation's weekly look at the people, policy, and politics that drive Texas.

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Foster Care Reform, The Bell Tolls on the State House, and Bye-Bye STAAR Test!

The Right Idea

52 minutes

5 months ago

Foster Care Reform, The Bell Tolls on the State House, and Bye-Bye STAAR Test!

TPPF's Brian Phillips, Derek Cohen, and Andrew Brown break down the final stretch of the Texas legislative session on a major deadline day. They discuss Texas’ foster care system, statewide testing, education funding, taxpayer funded lobbying, and more.

1:50 Hot Take: What page of the calendar will the House end on tonight?
5:24 Foster care in Texas
24:40 The Bell Tolls with the first deadline in the Texas House tonight
35:58 Bye-Bye Texas STAAR Test!
39:56 Senate Bill 2972 reins in college campus protests
41:17 Bail Reform in Texas
43:23 Taxpayer Funded Lobbying
47:22 What’re you watching?