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Gov. Greg Abbott addresses the Texas House on the opening day of the regular legislative session on Jan. 10. He's now bringing lawmakers back for the fourth special session of the year.
The behemoth House bill — 180 pages strong — also contains proposals for school funding, teacher retention programs and other school-related issues. The bill hasn’t yet been heard in the ...
By 2021 school choice students numbered 621,000, up from 200,000 in 2011. The next expansion was driven by pandemic-related dissatisfaction with public school policies and curricula. While many European school systems reopened in spring 2020, American public schools generally remained closed until the fall of 2021.
It was unusual among school voucher proposals in that it required neither accreditation on the part of schools accepting vouchers, nor proof of need on the part of families applying for them; neither did it have any requirement that schools accept vouchers as payment-in-full, nor any other provision to guarantee a reduction in the real cost of ...
Longtime lobbyist and political insider Bill Miller said it's unlikely that Abbott will walk away from the voucher issue even if this next effort falls as short as the previous ones have done.
The Robin Hood Plan is a colloquialism given to a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the state of Texas.
The Texas Legislature convenes on Jan. 10. From property taxes to school vouchers, the agenda for the coming Texas legislative session is taking shape as bills are filed in preparation for January.
AFCGF supports the creation and expansion of school voucher, corporate tax credit, and other school choice programs. The organization is headquartered in Dallas, Texas , is designated as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, and receives its funding through private individual and foundation donations.