Chandra Villanueva oversees Every Texan’s policy and advocacy work. She joined Every Texan in 2010 and focused on school finance and education policy ranging from early education to higher education access and success. Prior to joining Every Texan, Chandra was the manager of Advocacy and Public Policy with the Women’s Prison Association (WPA) in New York City. At WPA, she educated formerly incarcerated women on the legislative process and researched options for pregnant women in the criminal justice system. Chandra has also served as a Bill Emerson National Hunger Fellow with the Congressional Hunger Center with placements in Tucson, Arizona and Washington, DC. Chandra earned a Master of Public Administration from New York University’s Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and a Bachelor of Arts from The Evergreen State College in Olympia, Washington.
Read our full report about recapture and the school finance system here. In our new report, Recapture: The Most Misunderstood Aspect of the School Finance
While HB 3, the tax cut and school finance bill passed in 2019, added a needed $6 billion to the school finance system, the work
While HB 3, the tax cut and school finance bill passed in 2019, added a needed $6 billion to the school finance system, the work
This op-ed was co-authored by Every Texan’s Economic Opportunity Program Director Chandra Villanueva and Texas AFT president Zeph Capo for the San Antonio Express-News. While
Read our full joint report with Texas AFT about the underfunding of Texas schools here. Texas AFT and Every Texan released a report highlighting “The
The American Rescue Plan Act’s State Fiscal Recovery funds are intended to respond to COVID-19 health needs or the pandemic’s negative economic impacts, provide premium
This column was originally featured in the Dallas Morning News. When school budgets get tight, property-wealthy districts are often quick to blame the primary equity
Every Texan opposes SB 1, because it puts tax cuts before kids by accelerating the costly elimination of the Tier I M&O property tax rate
Every Texan opposes SB 91, which accelerates the elimination of the Tier I M&O and harms the state’s ability to fully support public education when
The American Rescue Plan (ARP) Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSR III) provides over $12 billion to Texas for public education. For the
