The details are included in a copy of the 80-page bill obtained by The Dallas Morning News.
. Buckley could not immediately be reached for comment. The legislative session ends Memorial Day weekend.
”The truth is my district is doing things very well. But for those kids who are truly trapped I think they deserve the chance to go somewhere else,” he said. House Speaker Dade Phelan, R-Beaumont, has largely been silent on the issue as all eyes are on his chamber where voucher-like efforts have historically died.for any “program through which a child may use state money for non-public primary or secondary education.”
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