The Committee on Public Education in the Texas House of Representatives held a hearing on HB 3 on Tuesday afternoon.
The potential changes were unveiled Monday when the committee released two rewritten versions of legislation. The committee ...
The bill has faced widespread pushback from advocates for public schools. One hundred fifty-eight out of Texas’s 254 counties ...
This legislative session, creating Education Savings Accounts — which would let parents use public funds towards private ...
In the past two years of campaigning for vouchers, politicians including Abbott have fostered a discourse—or stated explicitly— that Texas public schools are indoctrinating children with ...
The Texas House Public Education Committee was scheduled to meet on Tuesday to take up two high priority bills which would ...
Indeed, managing school vouchers has become a big business. And, as Governor Greg Abbott and the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature gear up to pass their own program this session, private ...
This coordinated effort represents the most extensive and most expensive private school voucher scheme ever proposed in the Texas House. Texas students and teachers remain underfunded while ...
There are several reasons that the subject of vouchers comes up, and many of those reasons stem from Texas being a largely republican state. Privatizing public schools has long been on the ...
A new poll released amid growing opposition to school choice found that a bipartisan majority of Texas midterm voters do not support implementing a program that would use taxpayer dollars to cover ...
is sponsoring an ad campaign to support Republicans in the Texas House who back the school voucher proposal that is a top priority for the governor. Credit: Hope Capwell for The Texas Tribune ...