The House Democrats’ plan aims to provide more money for special education, school safety and mental health needs. It would also give a dramatic boost to the...
Money for public campuses and private school choice hangs in the balance during this third special session.
“We have this bill today because it is the opposite of a voucher scam,” said Democratic Rep. Gene Wu of Houston. “We need the money that’s in this bill because that is the future of Texas.”The House Democrats’ plan aims to provide more money for special education, school safety and mental health needs. It would also give a dramatic boost to the per-student state funding formula for districts. In future years, under the proposed legislation, that base allotment would be adjusted for inflation.
A coalition of rural Republicans and Democrats in the House have historically quashed all voucherlike bills, based on their fears such a program would funnel state money out of the public campuses that serve the vast majority of Texas children.
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