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Todd Williams

Founding chairman, CEO and president, The Commit Partnership

Todd Williams is the founding chairman, CEO and president of The Commit Partnership, a collective impact organization focused on meaningfully improving post-secondary completion levels across the Dallas/Fort Worth area. In 2017, Todd was appointed to the Texas Commission on Public School Finance by Gov. Greg Abbott.

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Texas lawmakers must balance teacher pay raises and student needs

Public education cannot be what our state requires if we don’t provide the resources our children need. We must also address head on the many systemic challenges that hinder its success. The question we raise is simply whether the first step in transforming our public education outcomes should focus primarily on our teachers or our students. We believe that our report represented an appropriate balance that focused on both.