The Legislature doesn’t reconvene for another five months, but the battle over creating a school voucher-like program in the state is already well underway. A Texas House committee meeting on Monday may provide a preview of what to expect in the battle ahead.
The debate over creating a school voucher-like program in Texas is gearing up again at the Capitol, where a panel of lawmakers met Monday to begin a two-day discussion on what vouchers could mean for the state.
The point of this week’s hearings are to “evaluate the use of Education Savings Accounts in other states and make recommendations for a Texas program,” said Rep. Brad Buckley, R-Salado, who chairs the Texas House Committee on Public Education.Rep. Brad Buckley, chair of the House of Representatives’ Committee on Public Education, speaks during a hearing at the Capitol.
“Public education in Texas is on a path toward complete disarray and this is by design. The Abbott crowd is deliberately going beyond just dismantling our public schools but are actually hell bent on sabotaging the actual existence of public education itself,” said Carl Jones, a member of the Texas Democratic Rural Caucus.Texas State Teachers Association President Ovidia Molina agrees. In an interview with The Texas Newsroom, Molina pointed to how Gov.
DeMatthews said he believes that money is also being used to trick the public into supporting the initiative. But TSTA President Ovidia Molina said that none of the Texas Legislature’s past proposals for voucher-like programs included enough money to make those options a reality.
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