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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 ...
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a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the state of Texas.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 program, also known as vouchers or education savings accounts, would use public money to cover some or all of the cost of a student's private school tuition. It has been the priority issue for ...
State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, the Democratic caucus leader, told reporters Tuesday that Abbott "just needs to read the room" and recognized the votes are not there to enact a voucher bill.
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 ...
The proposal would give families who exit the state’s public education system access to $8,000 of taxpayer money each year to pay for their children’s private schooling.
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.
The median private school tuition in Texas is $9,831, said Colangelo, with the Texas Private Schools Association. Vouchers may help some parents access private education when coupled with ...