By John Cullen and Peter J. Holt
Child care is the small, silent engine that drives Texas businesses. It is as simple as this: if our young can’t access quality child care, much of the Texas workforce can’t return to work. The COVID-19 pandemic has revealed the essential role child care plays in our economy it is the overlooked sector that makes all other work possible.
With a billion-dollar infusion by the federal government dedicated to child care, we now have a unique opportunity. First, to ensure that necessary child care locations are open so families can return to work, and second, to enhance the quality of that early learning and care.
’I truly believe there’s an appetite for change,’ says lawmaker on police reform bills headed to Austin
The 87th legislative session begins January 12 and ends May 31, 2021
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SAN ANTONIO – Doing something to change the current status quo on law enforcement actions across the state is personal for Representative Senfronia Thompson (D-Houston).
“I worry every day that my kids, my children are not killed just because the police stops them and they recognize they are Black,” she said.
The representative from Houston has a compilation of bills she’s introducing during the upcoming 87th legislative session that deals with police reform, called the George Floyd Act.