The Texas voucher bills don't require voucher recipients to take the state standardized tests, making it difficult to measure how much they're learning compared to students in public schools.

The Texas House Public Education Committee was scheduled to meet on Tuesday to take up two high priority bills which would ...

The potential changes were unveiled Monday when the committee released two rewritten versions of legislation. The committee ...

Under the proposed changes in one bill, Texas' school voucher program would be capped at $1 billion for the first two years.

The Committee on Public Education in the Texas House of Representatives held a hearing on HB 3 on Tuesday afternoon.

Eligibility for Texas school vouchers and money allocation . Most students would receive just over $10,000, with higher ...

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 ...

Texas educators, including K-12 teachers and university professors from across the state, gathered at the Capitol to protest school vouchers and against limitations to shared governance proposals.

The gaps over eligibility and on spending levels are narrower than the fundamental differences of the previous session. Even with support for school vouchers in both houses, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick ...

In public hearings, during Capitol floor debates and in rooms packed with their constituents, Texas lawmakers have pitched school vouchers as a tool that will primarily benefit low-income students ...

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 ...

State Rep. James Talarico, a Democrat in Austin, has been gaining national attention for his opposition to the Texas school voucher movement that aims to give families tax-payer money to spend on ...