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Texas lawmakers are locked in a stalemate over a proposed $500 million program to publicly fund private school tuition for some of Texas' 5.5 million school children.
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 ...
In the past month, Rep. Justin Holland, R-Rockwall, who also voted against the school voucher proposal, has posted video clips, 30-40 seconds long, explaining his stances on everything from ...
Gov. Greg Abbott on Wednesday urged school voucher supporters to make the final push in the May primary runoff elections to bring a pro-school voucher majority to the Texas House. Delivering the ...
In November 2023, Allison voted against Republican Governor Greg Abbott's proposal for state-funded vouchers for private schools. Allison was one of 21 Republicans who joined all Democrats in voting to remove Abbott's voucher plan from the education funding bill; the amendment to drop the voucher proposal passed 83–64. [6]
The primary outcomes are setting the battleground for an expected energetic legislative fight in 2025 over whether lawmakers will approve a school choice program, also known as vouchers or ...
Abbott has boasted 77 Republican candidates on the general election ballot who supported school voucher legislation in previous sessions or ousted anti-voucher incumbents, meaning Democrats would need a net gain of at least two seats from the 2022 election to continue to block vouchers.
Clardy was an incumbent six-term representative who was elected to office in 2012, but had struck ire with the most conservative factions of the Texas Republican Party over his opposition to school vouchers. Shofner had accused Clardy of being "unloyal to the conservative party" and stood behind voucher programs, which was the most prominent ...