Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, center, touts his support of funding private schools at Brazos Christian School in Bryan, Texas, on Tuesday. Most Texas counties don’t have private schools.” last month, Gov. Greg Abbott declared the expansion of school choice one of his most important “emergency items.
By and large, Texas private schools are urban and any effort asking taxpayers to finance private schools will largely result in subsidizing private school education in the four metropolitan areas of Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, Austin and San Antonio. According to my analysis of data from thean overwhelming 72 percent of Texas private schools are in 10 counties. This is not the same for Texas public schools, where only 47 percent of the state’s public schools exist in those same 10 counties.
The counties without private schools are non-urban, but that doesn’t mean nobody lives there. In the 59 percent of Texas counties where private schools don’t exist, 647 independent school districts educate just under 1.4 million students. That’s about a quarter of Texas public schools’ enrollments and exceeds the student populations of 40 states, including Arizona, Colorado, Indiana, Massachusetts, Tennessee, Virginia and Washington.
Critics are quick to celebrate this gap and suggest an education market would easily solve this problem, but history shows this is far from true. In Chile, home to one of the largest universal school choice programs in existence, it took 27 years for private-voucher schools to reach half the capacity of Chile’s student population. Private-school vouchers in Chile
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