Issue Position: Education

Issue Position

I grew up right here in Dallas in a humble family with a father who has a sixth-grade education. I understand the value of education and how it opens up the door to opportunity. Thanks to my parents' sacrifices, I was able to go to law school, work at one of the top ten law firms in the country and then started my own firm. There is nothing more important to parents than the education of their children, and I will fight to make sure our children get the education they need to be Texas' future leaders.

To ensure that our children start school ready to learn and succeed, we should invest in quality Pre-K programs. Early education programs have positive short- and long-term impacts on children and our communities, such as increased high school graduation rates and decreased crime rates. Early education is the first step for preparing our kids for their futures, and I will fight to ensure that our schools have high-quality Pre-K programs available to all children.

The Legislature had an opportunity to fix our school finance reform for the first time in 30 years and inject $1.6 billion into our public schools, including millions of much-needed dollars to Mesquite ISD, Garland ISD, and Dallas ISD. I strongly supported this bill, but partisan politics got in the way, yet again, and proponents of vouchers added an amendment that ended up killing the bill. Our children deserve better than a school finance system that is "deeply flawed" and barely constitutional. We are going to continue to fight for increased funding for our neighborhood schools and against vouchers which strip dollars away from our public schools. Our children deserve the ability to attend world-class schools regardless of the zip code in which they live.

State Representative Victoria Neave hosted a Paying for College Fair at Eastfield College in Mesquite in February 2018 which drew several hundred attendees who had an opportunity to visit with colleges and hear from speakers about higher education.

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