House committee members clash over details of proposed Texas school voucher bill
Members of the House Committee on Public Education clashed over the details of a school voucher bill — a topic that for the past couple of years has driven a wedge in the Republican Party and prompted Gov. Greg Abbott last year to help unseat incumbent Republican lawmakers who stood against a "school choice" proposal in 2023.
Hollie Plemons took her seat before a panel of lawmakers in Austin to make her conservative case against school vouchers.
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Voucher bills want to prioritize low-income families and be open to all, but goals might be at oddsNeither of the Legislature's voucher bills require private schools to accept certain students, which some warn could block ...
Texas DOGE Chair Giovanni Capriglione insists that his committee will eliminate government waste, fraud and abuse. There's ...
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Plans for a new voucher program need work to make sure enough low-income families can participate — and that the program ...
Neither of the two “school choice” bills making their way through the halls of the State Legislature would do much to solve ...
Gov. Greg Abbott, who has led the charge for the education savings accounts, says school choice will pass in the House this ...
With diminished power to block school vouchers this legislative session, Texas Democrats sought Tuesday to frame public discussion on the contentious issue around one question: Should the state allow ...
NEA-Dallas plans to bus a group of educators to the Texas Capitol to join hundreds of others in rallying against school ...
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