Texas House education committee to take up school choice issue this week
The Texas House Committee on Public Education is set to take up their most anticipated bill of the session this week: school vouchers. What the governor calls “school choice” or “education savings accounts,” this bill would allocate public dollars to send some Texas students to private schools or pay for other education-related expenses.
Committee meets to send 'school choice' legislation to Texas House
On Tuesday morning, the Texas House Committee on Public Education are meeting in front of a dozens of public education advocates to discuss their bill to establish an education savings account (ESA) program -- commonly referred to as school choice by supporters,
The House and Senate are pursuing separate approaches that would offer greater relief either to homeowners or commercial ...
But the two chambers have competing ideas about how ... Greg Abbott declared lowering them an “emergency” item for the Texas Legislature, enabling state legislators to move fast to enact ...
How the two chambers hammer out an agreement on the ... exemption — the core concept of a plan already passed by the Texas Senate that would target homeowners for relief with $140,000 exempted ...
Some tax experts caution that leaders might be committing to unsustainable tax cuts — threatening public school funding and ...
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The Texas Senate wants to focus on homeowners, while the Texas House proposal would provide relief to businesses too.
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