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Watch Texas House debate education savings accounts

The Texas Tribune on MSN · 18h

Voucher vote updates: Watch the Texas House debate education savings accounts and public school funding

WATCH: 89th Legislative Session → Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. The Texas House is debating bills that would create a $1 billion private school voucher program and give public schools more funding per student,

Community Impact · 2h

Texas House moves to create $1B education savings account program

Around 2 a.m. April 17, after over 10 hours of debate, Texas House lawmakers initially passed legislation that would give families public money to pay for private education. Debate on the bill began around 3:30 p.

KXAN Austin on MSN · 3h

Reactions after Texas House passes education savings accounts program

Shortly after 2:00 a.m. Thursday, the Texas House voted to approve its version of Senate Bill 2, otherwise known as the education savings accounts program.

Texas lawmakers advance school choice bill

The Center Square · 46m

Texas' decades-long fight over school choice: How it happened

For more than 20 years, House Republicans and Democrats have opposed a taxpayer-funded subsidy to allow families to send their child to a private school, arguing

Bloomberg on MSN · 45m

Trump-Backed School Choice Bill Clears Key Hurdle in Texas

The Texas House of Representatives passed a $1 billion school voucher program, a key victory in Governor Greg Abbott’s long quest to establish school choice.

CBS Texas on MSN · 9h

Texas lawmakers approve controversial school choice bill

Texas lawmakers approved a controversial bill in Austin early Thursday morning. The school choice bill was passed in an 85-62 vote (2 absent). The measure will provide taxpayer-funded education savings accounts,

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Texas Republicans Deliver Trump, Abbott Major Win on Education

President Donald Trump had called Republican legislators in Texas before the vote, urging them to vote for the ...

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Texas Senate gives initial OK to bill restricting some flags in schools: 'Education and not advocacy'

The Texas Senate gave preliminary approval to a bill that would restrict which flags public schools can display on campuses.

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Will the Texas Senate join the House’s efforts to advance workforce education statewide?

Workforce advocates say Texas House Bill 120 could create more early college high school programs for students seeking ...

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Ahead of pivotal vote, Texas leaders share unfiltered thoughts on future of education

Here’s your ultimate guide to ESA legislation, which supporters often refer to as school choice, as it heads to a vote.

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Texas proposals would open more options for college accreditation. Here's why some oppose.

In what proponents say is a “clean up” and opponents call an “unnecessary risk,” Texas lawmakers consider bills that would ...

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