After hours of debate — and years of pushing from Gov. Greg Abbott — the Texas House gave initial approval to a bill to ...

The House approved historic legislation that would implement school vouchers in Texas. Here’s how each representative voted.

The last time the Texas Legislature tried to pass a school voucher program ... according to 2024 statistics Families at or below 200% of the poverty level, which includes any four-person household ...

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply. A Tribune analysis also found the state’s share of the funds that ...

A Senate bill that would create a $1 billion school voucher program is set for an expected heated debate on the Texas House floor ... become a hot-button issue in recent years and has pitted ...

Critics of the voucher proposals have emphasized that unlike public schools, private schools are not mandated to enroll or provide services for students with disabilities. Last week, the Texas ...

Passing school vouchers wouldn’t just deliver a major victory to the Christian private schools that Gov. Greg Abbott has visited in his years-long push for the policy. The leaders of the state ...

The Texas House Public Education Committee on Thursday voted in favor of a $1 billion spending cap for the first two years of a potential school voucher program and increasing by $395 the base ...

Soon, Catholic schools around the state could receive a much larger blessing from the Legislature: a $1 billion school voucher ... Texas by the wave of tuition-free charter schools that opened in ...

In 1955, then-Texas Gov. Allan Shivers commissioned a study on school segregation, which ultimately called for a voucher system to ... Abbott’s support grew in recent years as more Republican ...