At least two school choice-related bills were among the first filed ahead of the upcoming legislative session.
Middleton’s proposal would allow any student eligible to attend a Texas public school to apply for the program. If accepted, funds would be directly given to the student’s family and could be used to pay for private school tuition, online courses, tutoring, computers or textbooks, among other approved uses.
Many also pertain to school safety, which is anticipated to be a contentious topic next year following a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in May that left 19 students and two teachers dead and has been followed by intense scrutiny and investigation. Several parents and experts ardently promoted establishing voucher programs, which currently exist in some form in about 28 states as well as Puerto Rico and Washington, D.C., arguing that they incentivize improvement for both private and public schools and allow students to be educated somewhere that meets their needs.
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