Texas Home School Coalition
Political Action Committee
Celebrating 20 years of promoting and endorsing candidates
who advance and defend home schooling!
How does THSC PAC make its endorsements?
We base our endorsements of candidates who are current members of the legislature on their voting records. For those
who have not been previously elected to the legislature, we base endorsements on their response to our questionnaire and on
recommendations of home schoolers and other local leaders who are familiar with them. We do not endorse candidates with
no voting record unless they respond to the questionnaire, so we can ascertain their positions in writing on home school issues.
We mention on our website that these are endorsements for the Republican Primary. State law allows people to vote in either
political party’s primary, but only one. Since the Republican Party of Texas clearly states its support for home schooling in its
platform and most, but not all, home schoolers in Texas vote in the Republican Primary, that is where we have invested our time
to make endorsements.
In the general election in November, we will also ask Democrat candidates for a response to our questionnaire before we make
endorsements for that election. Unfortunately, very few respond to our questionnaire, because the Democrat Party of Texas is
strongly influenced by the Texas teachers’ unions and opposes home schooling or at least supports state regulation of home
schooling. Because our purpose is to promote and protect home schooling and home schoolers in Texas, we usually end up
supporting Republicans who share that view.