Texas foster care needs money to keep kids safe. Lawmakers have billions. (Editorial)

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Texas foster care needs money to keep kids safe. Lawmakers have billions. (Editorial)
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Why, over the years, has Texas so vigorously resisted a long-running, class-action...

to live ask almost daily. That’s the question children themselves ask. It’s a question every single Texan should be asking.

Why, nearly two-and-a-half years after Gov.

The state employees have their counterparts in the private sector and among volunteers dedicated to caring for children desperately in need of a safe and healthy home. Threats to children’s safety are growing, not receding, she said, noting that too many foster children — including children 3 years of age and younger — are being prescribed four or more mental-health drugs at one time without the necessary evaluations and assessments.

Now 76 and on senior status, Jack has presided since 2011 over the suit filed by two New York-based nonprofit groups asserting that Texas operates an unsafe, long-term foster care system. These days, plaintiffs are concerned that Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is trying to pressure the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rein in Jack, if not replace her.

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