After years of hitting a brick wall, school voucher advocates in Texas are entering next year’s legislative session with better odds than ever of passing a measure that would let parents use public money to pay for their kids’ private schooling.
But first, lawmakers will have to agree on what the program looks like.
Gov. Greg Abbott, the torchbearer in Texas’ voucher movement, has insisted that the Legislature pass a “universal” program that would make every Texas student eligible to access taxpayer-funded education savings accounts—a voucher-like policy that would give families direct access to state funds they could use to cover the costs of tuition, uniforms, home schooling and other education-related expenses.
Read more at The Texas Tribune.
