A new poll shows 61% of Texans supports school choice expansion.
PUBLISHED 4:53 PM CST Feb. 06, 2023AUSTIN, Texas — The calls for a so-called school choice program in Texas are growing louder. Gov. Greg Abbott showed his strongest support yet last week at a Parent Empowerment Night in Corpus Christi. The State Board of Education recently walked back its stance after rejecting such policies. And according to a
“Since there’s going to be a rich and robust discussion of school vouchers, at this time, the SBOE decided not to engage and make it a priority at all. So what we’ve done is simply say that we would like to take no position on the issue,” said LJ Francis, a new Republican member who represents Corpus Christi.
Now that school vouchers are off their list of priorities, Francis said he’d like to focus on school safety and increasing teacher pay. from the University of Houston shows that 60% of Republicans and 44% of Democrats support vouchers for all Texans. Rebecca Bell-Metereau, a Democrat who represents San Marcos, doesn’t fall into this group. She does not support school choice. And, she thinks it was a mistake for the Board to remove this issue as a legislative priority.
“[Ethics training is] important because it makes it so that you understand you’re not supposed to vote based on any influence that comes some kind of financial consideration,” she said. “So they’ll get the ethics training at some point in the future. And they may look back and think, ‘Oh, I might have violated my ethics, considering where I got campaign money.’ I don’t know that, but I know I am very glad that I had my ethics training before I made any decisions or cast any votes on SBOE.
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