Policy Orientation - 2015

Senator Larry Taylor represents Texas Senate District 11, comprised of portions of Brazoria,Galveston, and Harris Counties. A native Texan, Larry attended Baylor University where he received his BBA in 1982. He and his wife Kerri are the proud parents of three adult children. Larry... Read More →

Vance Ginn, Ph.D., is an economist in the Center for Fiscal Policy at the Texas Public Policy Foundation in Austin, one of the top free market, state-level think tanks in the nation.Before joining the Foundation, Ginn taught at three universities and one community college across Texas... Read More →

Louis Malfaro is the secretary-treasurer of the Texas American Federation of Teachers.  He started his career as an elementary bilingual education teacher in Austin, Texas (AISD).  Malfaro served as president of the Austin Federation of Teachers from 1992-1999 and as president of... Read More →

Herbert J. Walberg, Ph.D., is a distinguished visiting fellow at the Hoover Institution and a member of the Koret Task Force on K–12 Education. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and taught for 35 years at Harvard University and the University of Illinois at Chicago... Read More →