Pooja LodhiaAfter Tuesday's primary election, Texas Gov.Greg Abbott has enough votes to pass a voucher program that would send students to private schools.Gov. Greg Abbott is declaring victory after Tuesday's primary election, announcing that the Texas legislature now has enough votes to pass a program using taxpayer money to send students to private schools.
"What's really interesting in Texas is that for the last 25 years, we've ratcheted up the accountability, we've put an A-F rating system in schools, the traditional school system, so we have really high standards and really high accountability systems, but this $8,000 would go to a private school that is not required to do the state test and really has no rating system and very little accountability," Duncan Klussman, an assistant professor at the University of Houston and...
"If you look at Cy-Fair right now, they're facing an almost $140 million deficit, and this could potentially make it worse. We expect that there would probably be more program cuts. They may be losing librarians like Spring Branch and others," Zeph Capo, the president of the Texas AFT, explained.
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