Press Releases: Education

Heartland Institute Corrects Record, Rebuts Education Blogger’s Attack on Taxpayers’ Savings Grants in Texas

June 14, 2011

On May 18, a Texas-based education consultant and blogger named Ed Fuller posted an essay titled “Vouchers? A Bad Idea and Here Is [sic] Several Reasons Why” on his blog. Fuller offers a variety of objections to the general idea of vouchers and specifically to a Policy Brief written by John Merrifield and Joseph L. Bast about a Texas proposal to use a Taxpayers’ Savings Grant Program (TSGP) to help close the state’s budget gap.

Executive Summary: Can Vouchers Reform Public Schools?

July 23, 2008
George A. Clowes, Ph.D.