Public school advocates are calling it a shady, backroom maneuver. Late Sunday night, a Senate committee replaced the House of Representatives’ school funding bill, HB 100, with one of their own.Greg Abbott
The new bill still raises state funding for schools – barely. With the Senate’s tweaks, the minimum figure that schools will get per enrolled pupil, referred to as the “basic allotment,” will go from 2019’s level of $6,106 per student to $6,210. The House’s version was $6,250 per pupil, but even that is miles away from the $7,325 that educators say is needed to keep up with inflation.
Conservatives in Texas have proposed vouchers for generations – the concept of taking public education money to help parents pay for private school has often been supported by religious extremists and white supremacists. But until recent years most mainstream elected Republicans have been indifferent. This session, Abbott made vouchers – which he refers to as “school choice” – his number one priority .
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