Lawmakers sparred over that question during a tense and highly attended public hearing on House Bill 3, one of the two main proposals seeking to create a school voucher program, a top priority for ...

The Texas Senate on Feb. 5 passed its own version of a voucher proposal, Senate Bill 2. As per their bills, each chamber is proposing a $1 billion annual school voucher program. The Senate ...

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 ...

Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) said Thursday that lawmakers will face “headwinds” negotiating a new farm bill due to the Trump administration’s overhaul of the Agriculture Department and other ...

In a move meant to signal inevitable passage of a school voucher program, Rep. Brad Buckley on Wednesday announced that 75 other Texas House members had signed on as co-authors of his proposal to ...

Opponents argue the plan could reduce public school funding. An anti-voucher rally is planned outside the Capitol today. The bill proposes allocating $1 billion in taxpayer dollars to create the ...

The 75 co-sponsors plus the bill’s author would provide enough votes to pass Gov. Abbott’s top priority measure in the 150-seat House. Voucher bills would allow many of these Houston students ...

Gov. Brad Little signed into law House Bill 93, a major victory for school choice-minded lawmakers after years of attempts to introduce vouchers in Idaho, and the most significant bill to pass so ...

With all that’s going on in the world today, I’m hopeful we’ll not lose sight of the battle over the future of universal public education. Not the endless fighting about curriculum, funding ...

COSHOCTON − How deep cuts to the federal farm bill could affect Coshocton County is very much up in the air with officials not having much to say on local impacts. The farm bill is a comprehensive ...

The House bill has yet to be considered in committee. Voucher-like proposals died in the chamber in 2023, but the makeup of the House has since changed. If the House does pass its plan ...