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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 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.
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.
A school voucher, also called an education voucher in a voucher system, is a certificate of government funding for students at schools chosen by themselves or their parents.
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a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the state of Texas.
In the Northeast Texas-based District 1, Rep. Gary VanDeaver, R-New Boston, who was among the House Republican incumbents who opposed school vouchers, survived a challenge by Chris Spencer ...
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 ...