Vouchers promise a lifeline for students with special needs. Will they benefit — or be left behind?
About 70 private schools in Texas have identified themselves in self-reported data as having specialized programs for ...
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The School Voucher Measures Moving In The Background
Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I am a cable news contributor and professor of journalism. Amid the flurry of presidential executive orders, cabinet hearings ...
The Washington Post9d
GOP voucher plan would divert billions in taxes to private schools
The school voucher movement has scored victories in conservative states in a quest to send public dollars to private schools, with tax money following the child. Now backers see their best chance ...
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Texas House unveils school voucher, $8B school finance bills: 'One size does not fit all'
Texas House lawmakers filed a sweep of education-related legislation Thursday including a school voucher proposal and a funding bill that would invest $8 billion in public education. The bills are ...
The Texas Tribune12d
Voucher bills want to prioritize low-income families and be open to all students. Those goals might be at odds.
Neither of the Legislature’s voucher bills require private schools to accept certain students, which some warn could block the neediest children from access. Education policy experts and public ...
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Texas school voucher bills want to prioritize low-income families but also be open to all students
In public hearings, during Capitol floor debates and in rooms packed with their constituents, Texas lawmakers have pitched school vouchers as a tool that will primarily benefit low-income students ...