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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 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 ...
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 ...
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 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a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the state of Texas.
Texas House Bill 3979 (HB 3979) is an act that relates to civics instruction and instruction policies in public schools in the state of Texas.A follow-up bill to HB 3079—TX Senate Bill 3 [1] —authored by Senator Bryan Hughes (R-Mineola) and others, which was filed on July 9, 2021, passed on July 16, 2021, and becomes law in December, limits the manner and extent to which students may learn ...
The bill's author then withdrew the legislation from consideration since Abbott had said he would not approve increases to public education funding unless school choice was passed.
Texas high school football coaches have thrown a flag at the idea of vouchers, citing fears that Gov. Greg Abbott’s plan would take money from athletics and entice players to jump to private ...