By: Erin Humiston – ipi.org – May 16, 2018 Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) president Tom Giovanetti issued the following statement in response to today’s Senate vote to re-regulate the internet under Title II. “Any notion that the Senate is the more deliberate and prudent of the two bodies of Congress should be discarded after today’s vote to misuse the...

By: Arianna Prothero – blogs.edweek.org – July 14, 2017 Private school choice supporters continue to hit a wall of opposition made up by not only by Democrats, but also members of their own party. In particular, Republicans from rural areas. Residents of the Lone Star State take serious pride in their sense of independence, so it may come as a...

By: Arianna Prothero – blogs.edweek.org – July 14, 2017 Private school choice supporters continue to hit a wall of opposition made up by not only by Democrats, but also members of their own party. In particular, Republicans from rural areas. Residents of the Lone Star State take serious pride in their sense of independence, so it may come as a...

By: Julie Chang – statesman.com – May 22, 2018 The Texas Senate approved 21-10 a bill early Monday morning that would inject about $530 million into the public education system while creating a so-called school choice system that would redirect state money to help students pay for private school tuition. House Bill 21, originally would have injected $1.6 billion extra...

By: Brandon Formby and Patrick Svitek – texastribune.org -January 16, 2018 Gov. Greg Abbott on Tuesday (January 16) unveiled a plan to “rein in skyrocketing property taxes” in Texas, looking to lay down a marker in a debate that dominated the legislative sessions last year and promises to remain front and center through the 2018 primaries and his re-election campaign....

By: Alexa Ura – texastribune.org – April 27, 2018 The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has upheld Texas’ voter identification law, reversing a lower court ruling that found it discriminated against voters of color. Amid efforts to prove Texas’ embattled voter ID law is discriminatory, a federal appeals panel on Friday OK’d state lawmakers’ efforts to rewrite the law...

By: Ariana Eunjung Cha, Juliet Eilperin and Josh Dawsey – washingtonpost.com – May 18, 2018 The Trump administration is expected to announce May 18 that it will pull funds from groups that perform or provide referrals for abortions. (Monica Akhtar/The Washington Post) The Trump administration is proposing to bar clinics that provide abortion services or referrals from receiving federal family-planning...

By: Jeremy Dys – townhall.com – May 09, 2018 Americans have a long history of welcoming the compassionate and innovative work of religious individuals and organizations. On this year’s observance of the National Day of Prayer, President Trump extended that history by announcing the creation of The White House Faith and Opportunity Initiative (“Initiative”). The initiative, rebranded from prior administrations,...

By: David Roach – bpnews.net – May 15, 2018 Legislation passed in Oklahoma and Kansas to protect the religious liberty of adoption agencies has drawn praise from Baptist leaders in those states and criticism from homosexual activist groups. In Oklahoma, Republican Gov. Mary Fallin signed Senate Bill 1140 on May 11. The measure protects private organizations from being required to...

By: Anna Fifield – washingtonpost.com – May 16, 2018 North Korea is rapidly moving the goal posts for next month’s summit between leader Kim Jong Un and President Trump, saying the United States must stop insisting that the North “unilaterally” abandon its nuclear weapons program and stop talking about a Libya-style solution to the standoff. The latest warning, delivered by...