Money Does Matter

Investing in Texas Children and our Future

From our founding days, Texans have recognized that providing free universal education for our children is a major role of state government. Schools are provided, according to the Texas Constitution, for a "general diffusion of knowledge" and education is “essential to the preservation of the liberties and rights of the people.” The high values of liberty and prosperity, therefore, are in Texans’ DNA, and we know that high-quality schools are prerequisites for both.