Education News Texas school voucher bills want to prioritize low-income families but also be open to all students. Neither of the Legislature’s voucher bills require private schools to accept ...

The Texas Senate voted on Thursday to send legislation creating a statewide private school voucher program to Gov. Greg Abbott’s desk to be signed into law, all but concluding an ugly intraparty ...

Different pace and priorities separate Texas Senate and House on school vouchers. ... which includes any four-person household earning less than roughly $156,000, according to 2024 statistics ...

School Voucher bill heats up on Texas House committee floor. ... which includes any four-person household earning less than roughly $156,000, according to 2024 statistics ...

Data shows tuition costs at private schools in San Antonio, Bexar County amid Texas school voucher debate ... The National Center for Education Statistics lists 82 private schools in Bexar County.

Texas Home School Coalition estimates that there are between 500,000 and 620,000 homeschooled students in Texas. However, based on school voucher numbers across the country, Scott doesn’t expect ...

Buckley also filed a sweeping school finance bill Thursday that would raise the basic amount of funding public schools receive per student from $6,160 to $6,380. Increasing that stream of funding ...

These statistics concern State Rep. Jay Dean (R-Longview), speaking one day before the vote. “Years two, three, and four, who knows if we’re going to have the surplus that we have today?,” asked Dean, ...

As Texas lawmakers consider school vouchers, does spending public dollars on private education work? By Edward McKinley , Austin Bureau Updated Feb 3, 2025 4:34 p.m.

While national measures of public-school performance are limited, those that do exist tend to put Texas in the middle of the pack. In 2022, the state’s eighth graders scored around the national ...

Conservative billionaires including West Texas oilman Tim Dunn and packaging tycoon Richard Uihlein chipped in millions of their own to back vouchers that can be used to pay private schools, and ...