Jaime Puente oversees Every Texan’s work on education, workforce development and job quality. Before joining Every Texan, Jaime served three sessions as Legislative Director for two members of the Texas House of Representatives, Dr. Alma Allen and Rep. Ann Johnson. He also served for one review cycle at the Texas Sunset Advisory Commission where he worked on the reports for the Department of Licensing and Regulation as well as the Commission on Jail Standards. Jaime, a proud Houstonian, earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English and History from the University of Houston-Downtown and a Master of Arts degree at the Center for Mexican American Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. His Master’s thesis used the history of Juarez Lincoln University in Austin, Texas, to discuss the contested implementation of War on Poverty programs established by the Economic Opportunity Act of 1964.
Policy areas: K-12 Education, Immigration
Where to find me during session: The benches between E2.030 and E2.036
My surprising hobby: Land management
Twitter Facebook Linkedin Every Texan’s director of Economic Opportunity Jaime Puente was interviewed for The Washington Post on The Texas Education Agency’s proposed curriculum to pay school districts to teach
One of the great pleasures of defending public education in Texas is the opportunity to meet fellow Texans and discuss the issues vital to our state. Recently, it was my
View this testimony as a PDF Our state is spending billions of taxpayer dollars and making it more dangerous and more difficult to be an immigrant in Texas by continuing
Texas’ SB 4 Betrays American Values Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star and the Texas Legislature’s dangerously unconstitutional SB 4 have turned the idyllic beauty of the Texas Borderlands into
Read the full Texas report as a PDF In partnership with the Immigration Research Initiative (IRI), Every Texan released a new analysis demonstrating asylum seekers and new immigrants make significant
Every Texan’s Director of Economic Opportunity Jaime Puente was interviewed by The Texas Observer on a reworked HB 1, which includes some concessions to try and sway voucher skeptics. Read an
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YMDQhwJeSrU View the full testimony as a PDF here During Governor Abbott’s eight years in office, he has called for (and this committee has approved) nearly $12 billion Texan tax
Every Texan’s Director of Economic Opportunity, Jaime Puente, testifies in strong opposition to HB 6 which would give another $1.5 billion to construction of a border wall. Read more about the
Every Texan’s Director of Economic Opportunity Jaime Puente was interviewed by The Texas Observer on the Senate’s passage of SB 1, a voucher proposal that would inevitably harm public school
Every Texan’s Director of Economic Opportunity, Jaime Puente, testifies against the public education voucher program in front of the Senate Committee on education during the 3rd Special Session of the 88th
