For Rep. Bryant, when it comes to funding public schools versus private schools, it’s a matter of priorities. “We’re fighting for public education which educates 5.5 million kids. And the private ...

Indeed, managing school vouchers has become a big business. And, as Governor Greg Abbott and the Republican-controlled Texas Legislature gear up to pass their own program this session, private ...

This coordinated effort represents the most extensive and most expensive private school voucher scheme ever proposed in the Texas House. Texas students and teachers remain underfunded while ...

Hollie Plemons took her seat before a panel of lawmakers in Austin to make her conservative case against school vouchers.

Voucher bill author Brad Buckley wouldn't say whether families earning $500,000-plus should be ineligible for help paying for ...

A non-partisan group believes schools statewide could lose if school vouchers become a reality.

During a hearing Tuesday, lawmakers sparred over whether wealthier Texans should be allowed to participate in the Texas House's proposed school voucher program. Credit: Laura Skelding for The ...

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott is on the cusp of enacting a $1 billion school voucher program that will provide tens of thousands of students with taxpayer dollars to pay for private school tuition ...

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas lawmakers debated a proposed school voucher program in a public hearing Tuesday as part of the 89th Texas Legislative Session. The hearing, held at the State Capitol ...

A new poll released amid growing opposition to school choice found that a bipartisan majority of Texas midterm voters do not support implementing a program that would use taxpayer dollars to cover ...

As House members clashed over the potential effects of the bill, families in favor of school vouchers gathered a few blocks south at the headquarters of conservative think tank Texas Public Policy ...

Texas lawmakers have pitched school vouchers as a tool that will primarily benefit low-income students - and not just, as their critics argue, offer taxpayer dollars to families already sending ...