Austin rep refuses to sign on to recommendations
The special House committee established to study school vouchers hasn’t exactly come out in support of them, although a couple members are vocally pro-voucher.
Its report, released on Aug. 10, recommends several requirements for a voucher system, in the case one is adopted – a big. But it mostly recommends other measures with broader support: increasing the money going to public schools, paying teachers more, and reworking the state’s broken accountability and student testing systems.Greg Abbott
’s stymied voucher proposal back on the House radar, after the lower body decisively rejected it last spring. Abbott staked a great deal of political capital on vouchers, a scheme to allow parents to take money out of the public school system to pay for private school expenses. He’s expected to call a special session in October to once again try to get the measure through the legislature.
The special committee heard hours of testimony on the topic, which it calls “parental choice.” It recommended that if a voucher program is approved it prioritize “high need students” and receive only a “finite appropriation” from the General Revenue Fund. Rep.wrote in an addendum that any private schools using voucher funds should be held to the same accountability measures as public schools – something that voucher proponents don’t want. Rep.Austin Rep.
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