school vouchers, Texas and Abbott

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's message on school vouchers gets a little muddled at key moment
Gov. Greg Abbott isn’t always the best messenger for his own priorities. That was clear again this week as he advocated for a school choice program that would allow parents to use state funding to pay for a portion of a private school’s tuition,
Did Gov. Abbott just admit that school vouchers will defund public schools?
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott may have given lawmakers opposing school choice a sounding board to rally further support against sending taxpayer dollars to private and parochial schooling. Earlier this week,
Texas superintendents share concerns towards school vouchers
The odds are stacked in Texas Governor Greg Abbott’s favor for the passing of school vouchers. Grayson county school officials share their concerns about them passing at the Texas house level.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott stumps for vouchers at San Antonio private school
Texas Governor Greg Abbott plans on speaking at a private school in San Antonio on Monday, February 17. Hosted by the Texas Public Policy Foundation, the state leader will be talking about his support of private school vouchers.
Will Abbott’s school vouchers ‘cripple our public schools?’
Since his reelection campaign in 2022, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott has been foiled in perhaps his biggest priority as the state’s leader: Passing a school voucher-like program that would allow
School voucher proponent picked to lead Texas House education committee
House Speaker Dustin Burrows reappointed state Rep. Brad Buckley (R-Killeen) to lead the committee. Buckley tried to get school voucher legislation approved in 2023 but rural Republicans and Democrats blocked the effort.
'Call me a liar to my face': Texas Gov. Abbott, Rep. Hinojosa spar over school vouchers
Gina Hinojosa, a former president of the Austin school board, posted an interactive on X through which users can find out whether local school districts would lose money if the legislation Gov. Greg Abbott calls "school choice" is enacted this year.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says vouchers could lead to less funding for public schools
In his push for private school vouchers, Gov. Greg Abbott has repeatedly emphasized he has no intention of harming public schools. But the Texas Republican this week acknowledged that his priority policy would in fact result in public schools losing money.
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Abbott to promote school vouchers in weekend speech
Greg Abbott will lay out his legislative priorities ... But he was foiled in perhaps his biggest priority: passing a school voucher-like program that would allow the use of public dollars to ...
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'Welfare for the wealthy': House Democrats urge Texans to fight against school vouchers
The morning after Gov. Greg Abbott delivered his biennial State of the State address and, as expected, declared the passage of a school voucher-like program an emergency item for the 89th ...
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Vouchers, tax cuts, water and teacher pay top Gov. Abbott's State of the State address
Gov. Greg Abbott, in the middle of his third term with an eye on a fourth, is challenging the Texas Legislature with an ...
School voucher debate heats up as Southeast Texas educators warn of classroom chaos
News spoke with Little Cypress-Mauriceville Superintendent Stacey Brister, who is traveling to Austin to represent educators ...
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Gov. Greg Abbott lays out his agenda for Texas with emphasis on vouchers, water and property taxes
Gov. Greg Abbott touted Texas' strong economy in his State of the State address Sunday, also laying out a list of ...
The debate over school vouchers will return to the Legislature with perhaps less GOP infighting
Despite an additional four special sessions in 2023, lawmakers could not come up with a plan for private school vouchers that ...
With vouchers fast-tracked, other Texas public education issues to watch this session
It only took the Texas Senate 22 days from the start of this year’s legislative session to introduce, debate and pass its ...
Texas should learn from Arizona. Low-income families aren't using school vouchers | Letters
Public school dollars should go only to public schools, which are underfunded by billions of dollars annually. We don’t need ...