Rural school leaders in Texas have been able to stave off the legislative priority of some of the state’s most prominent Republicans. But private school officials hope this year will be different.

The last ambitious school choice bill before the Texas Legislature was filed in 2017, but it was killed by Republicans from rural Texas after it made it out of the Senate. Middleton believes the ...

news Politics ‘School choice’ vote shows Greg Abbott’s growing power in Texas Legislature The Texas House once flexed its independence. Now the governor’s influence is stronger than ever.

A $1 billion voucher program, touted as “the largest school-choice program in American history,” will go toward students’ enrollment in private and parochial schools.

With the Legislature on Tuesday adjourning its fourth special session this year, the House once again blocked school choice proposals from advancing in the Capitol, blunting Gov. Greg Abbott's ...

The Texas Legislature is considering a school choice program with education savings accounts. Republicans support it, but Democrats worry about the costs, which could rise from $1 billion in the ...

WACO, Texas (KWTX) - As the beginning of the 89th Legislative Session approaches on January 14, Texas politicians in Austin are getting ready to vote on important issues, and school choice has ...

From a national lens, Huerta, who researches school choice across the U.S., doesn't consider the change of heart in Texas to be a "watershed moment" for popularity in the school choice movement ...

The Texas Legislature convenes Tuesday. What you need to know about the 140-day session. Republicans have ruled Texas for the past 20 years, but one of their longest-running top priorities has ...

Texas Greg Abbott is pushing even harder this year to get school choice passed. Last year, two bills made their way to the Texas house floor, but ESA’s were voted out of H.B. 1 when it was time ...

Seattle, Wash., Apr 19, 2025 / 08:00 am. The Texas House of Representatives this week approved a sweeping school choice bill, one hailed by the state’s Catholic bishops and which could ...

The state of Texas has swept into the Houston school district, seized control of some 85 schools, most of which are majority Latino or Black, homogenized teaching and curriculums, remade some ...