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Texas private schools have no required state exams. Will they be held accountable under a voucher plan?

Texas lawmakers are considering allocating $1 billion to education savings accounts, or a type of voucher system, that would allow taxpayer dollars to go to private school tuition. Senate Bill 2, passed to the Texas House,

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Texas House unveils its private school voucher bill

Families participating in the program could receive about 85% of the amount public schools collect for each attending student from state and local sources.

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Texas Speaker Burrows says school choice will pass in the House "The votes are there to do this"

Burrows has heard on social media about the need to pass school choice in Texas from some of the biggest names on the planet, including President Trump and Elon Musk. He got the message. "I'm proud to say the votes are there to do this in the Texas House," Burrows said in San Antonio earlier this week at a school choice event.

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Texas House wants to give public schools $220 more per student

The proposal, filed Thursday, comes well short of the increase school administrators and education advocates have been asking ...

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Texas House unveils school voucher, $8B school finance bills: 'One size does not fit all'

The Texas House on Thursday filed a sweep of education bills including public school finance and school voucher proposals.

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Texas House unveils its own 'school choice' legislation with House Bill 2, 3

Like the Texas Senate, the House calls for a cash incentive paid from taxes for families who want to switch their kids from ...

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Texas lawmakers either embrace or mock Trump and Musk's DOGE strategies, employees react to mass firings

Republican North Texas Congressman Brandon Gill supports the Elon Musk-led Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) while Democratic N. Texas Congressman Marc Veasey has questioned the effort. We ...

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Texas DPS Officer’s Association helping Grimes County trooper, family who lost home in house fire

The Texas Department of Public Safety Officer’s Association is lending a helping hand to a trooper who lost everything in a ...

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Texas House creates its own ‘DOGE’ to ‘reduce the size and scope of government’

The Texas House has created the Delivery of Government Efficiency (Texas DOGE) Committee, chaired by Rep. Giovanni ...

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