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School Vouchers 101 - Raise Your Hand Texas

School vouchers are taxpayer-funded subsidies given to private schools and vendors without transparency and accountability for results. Over the years, ...

Abbott says Texas will pass vouchers, school funding in 2025

Last year, House lawmakers voted 84-63 to strip from a massive education funding bill a provision to establish education savings accounts, a ...

How a school voucher advocate won in Texas House District 18

A coalition of House Democrats and rural Republicans, including Bailes, kept the program from becoming law, citing worries that the proposal ...

Public Schools, Not Vouchers, Offer the Most School Choice | TASB

Despite the escalating political rhetoric about taxpayer-funded private school vouchers, the truth remains: Texas public schools are the leaders in ...

Here is Where We Stand on School Vouchers

Vouchers reduce equitable access to educational opportunity, weaken rights for students with disabilities, and potentially expose taxpayers to fraud. Private ...

Texas lawmakers kick off a new season of heated debate over ...

For instance, the state's most recent voucher proposals would've given parents around $10,000. According to Private School Review, the average ...

Texas House education chair expects vouchers will pass next session

Rep. Brad Buckley, chair of the House Education Committee, said at a Dallas Regional Chamber on Tuesday, Sept. 17, 2024, that he believes a ...

Greg Abbott's School Voucher Crusade Is Three ... - ProPublica

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott succeeded in persuading primary voters to remove from office members of his party who had defied him by voting against ...

How billionaires are pushing school vouchers in Texas | TPR

The stated goal for school vouchers has been to provide educational equity. However, after years of implementation in other states, ...

The school choice plan that is controversial, even in Texas

Last legislative session, they repeatedly refused to support a school voucher proposal championed by their Republican governor, Greg Abbott. The ...

2025 Texas Legislature will have pro-school voucher majority ...

Governor Greg Abbott now claims the next Legislature will have the majority he needs to pass vouchers into law.

Abbott's school voucher plan now has more than enough support

DALLAS - Gov. Greg Abbott is ready to push his school voucher plan again. This time, he has a lot more support. The Texas governor is ...

The Texas Voucher Scam ‣ Texas AFT

Private school vouchers would take. Texas can have public schools that help kids thrive — or a voucher program. That's the only school choice in front of us.

Texas House Education Chair Predicts School Vouchers Will Pass ...

Texas Rep. Brad Buckley, chairman of the state's House education committee, said he expects a voucher bill to pass in the next legislative ...

What's breaking up the Texas Republican party? School vouchers

Out-of-state donors are funneling millions of dollars into state legislative races to defeat Republicans who opposed the governor's top education priority.

Debate on Texas school choice legislation continues | FOX 7 Austin

The school voucher plan aims to use tax dollars to pay for students to attend private schools. A panel of education experts and professionals ...

Fact Check: Do Voucher Programs Really Increase Public School ...

Even representatives of Abbott's own Texas Education Agency (TEA) ... As funding increasingly flows to private school vouchers, public schools ...

School voucher issue could impact elections in Houston area ...

After a series of Republicans in the Texas House joined Democrats last year in blocking a law that would have allowed public dollars to be ...

Election 2024: How it will impact school vouchers, balance of power ...

This year's Texas House races became an unprecedented battleground among Republicans after lawmakers closed out the 2023 legislative session – ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says school voucher program will pass ...

After the 2024 elections, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott said he's confident that the school voucher program will pass during legislative session.