Texas House, school voucher

Texas House unveils school voucher, $8B school finance bills: 'One size does not fit all'
The Texas House on Thursday filed a sweep of education bills including public school finance and school voucher proposals.
Texas House plan for school vouchers deviates from Senate bill
The Texas House has filed its school voucher bill. The legislation differs in several ways from what the Senate has already passed. The two chambers would have to hash out their differences before sending any legislation to Gov.
Texas House unveils its private school voucher bill
Families participating in the program could receive about 85% of the amount public schools collect for each attending student from the state and local sources.
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Texas Teachers Association: Vouchers will financially damage public schools | Opinion
Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick say they want to raise teacher pay, but if the school voucher bill (Senate Bill 2) is enacted, it would be increasingly more difficult for public school classrooms to be adequately funded and public school teachers to be adequately paid.
Check the numbers: Website tells how much Texas schools will lose if voucher bill passes
Sponsored by Texas democrats, the site shows millions in lost funding for Fort Worth ISD. Considering the source, some believe it’s biased. Is it?
Under Texas House bill, value of education savings accounts would be tied to public school funding
The Texas House filed its priority bill on private school vouchers on Thursday. Credit: Laura Skelding for The Texas Tribune Audio recording is automated for accessibility. Humans wrote and edited ...
Texas parents push back on school vouchers, demand public funding
The Texas Senate’s voucher program would give families $10,000 to fund students’ private school education. “A public school gets just over $6,000 for a public school student so that just doesn’t even make sense,” said Baus. Covering politics throughout the state of Texas.
Republican lawmaker files bills to ban DEI in Texas K-12 public schools
A top Texas senator filed legislation Monday that would extend the state’s ban on diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives to K-12 public schools, marking the first step in fulfilling a priority of Gov.
Would Texas football suffer because of school choice? Gov. Abbott, coaches clash over ESAs
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said plans for a school voucher-style program won’t have a negative impact on one of the state’s most ...
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Texas Legislature Grapples with School Voucher Proposals Amid Concerns of Impact on Public Education Funding
Texas House and Senate propose differing school voucher plans; the House links vouchers to public school funding levels.
“We’re in competition”: An East Texas school district faces hard choices as education options grow
The elementary schools’ staff passed tissues to one another as they sat in the school board’s chamber waiting for the vote ...
What are Texas’ plans for a school voucher-style program? Here’s a look at the proposals
Public school advocates oppose any plan resembling school vouchers saying such programs drain resources from the campuses ...
Hundreds protest school choice as Texas House and Senate push forward different proposals for Education Savings Account programs
In addition to its school choice proposal, the Texas House has also filed a funding bill that would invest billions in public ...
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National leaders mount pressure campaign on Texas House GOP to pass voucher bill
Supporters of voucher-like education savings accounts are trying to press their advantage early and build a sense of ...
Texas Speaker Burrows promises school choice will pass: ‘Our moment has arrived’
Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows said Thursday that creating a private-school voucher program in Texas is “the defining ...
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The Edgewood ISD school voucher experiment: KSAT Explains
The vouchers were called CEO Horizon Scholarships, operated by the Children’s Educational Opportunity Foundation. The ...