Vouchers, Texas Style - Reform Austin
Feb 5, 2025 · Texas Senate Debate On School Voucher Bill Could Stretch Into Morning Nick Anderson Writer, editor, photographer and editorial cartoonist Nick Anderson has joined the Reform Austin newsroom, where he will employ the artistic skill and political insights that earned a Pulitzer Prize to drive coverage of Texas government.
Cartoon: Vouchers, Texas style - Daily Kos
4 days ago · The Texas Senate opened debate on Senate Bill 2 on Wednesday. The bill represents Gov. Greg Abbott’s top legislative priority : establishing a school choice program in Texas. SB 2 proposes using ...
School vouchers in Texas: Everything you need to know - The Texas …
Jan 23, 2025 · School vouchers, often referred to as “school choice” programs, use public funds to help families pay for their children’s private education. Supporters say families should receive state...
A cartoon guide to vouchers and puppet masters Wilks and …
Oct 2, 2023 · How Texas' biggest GOP donors and billionaire oil and fracking tycoons, Tim Dunn and Farris Wilks, are pushing Abbott to embrace school vouchers
$1 billion school voucher bill clears first hurdle in Texas Senate
Jan 31, 2025 · A $1 billion school voucher program that would award up to $11,500 in public dollars per student to go toward private education easily crossed its first hurdle in the Texas Senate on Tuesday.
Texas Senate passes school vouchers, sends bill to the House
Feb 5, 2025 · SB 2 advanced in a 19-12 vote, with all Democrats and one Republican — Sen. Robert Nichols of Jacksonville — opposing the legislation. The bill now goes to the Texas House. Similar legislation ...
Texas’ 2024 political issues: border security, abortion, school ...
Jan 1, 2024 · Some political issues in 2023, such as school vouchers and border security, drew attention throughout the year. And others, like turmoil seen at the Houston school district and Texas A&M...
What’s breaking up the Texas Republican party? School vouchers
May 22, 2024 · When nearly two dozen Republican state lawmakers defied Texas Gov. Greg Abbott to oppose a centerpiece of his agenda — the creation of a school voucher program — they knew they’d face...
The debate over school vouchers is returning to the Legislature
5 days ago · Gov. Greg Abbott speaks on the north steps of the State Capitol to supporters at a Texas Public Policy Foundation Parent Empowerment rally on Tuesday, March 21, 2023 in Austin.
Texas Republicans Unite Behind Vouchers - The Austin Chronicle
Nov 15, 2024 · Abbott expended enormous political capital to pass vouchers in the 2023 legislative session but was repudiated by a group of two dozen Republicans in the House of Representatives who joined...
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