In 2011, I worked with Prof. John Merrifield, an authority on the economics of education in Texas, and other experts to produce reports on the impact of the Taxpayer Savings Grant Program (TSGP) on the Texas state budget and on teachers.
Some of this Policy Brief repeats what appeared in those earlier publications I wrote or coauthored, but much is new. In particular, the spreadsheet that appears
in Appendix 3 makes many adjustments and refinements to the original analysis reported in the Policy Brief coauthored by Prof. Merrifield and me in 2011. The estimates of enrollment and cost savings differ from those in the earlier report.
