Texas set to pass universal school choice for parents | Eastern North Carolina Now

Texas is set to pass universal school choice, which has already passed the Senate and has the votes to pass the House probably this week.  Governor Abbot is pledged to sign it into law, as he has been a major supporter all along.

The Texas Universal School Choice bill allows all parents in the state to direct the state funds allocated to each child in public school, $10,000 per child to  whatever school the parent decides best meets their child's needs, whether public, private, or religious.  Home school parents would be allocated $2,000 per child.

The Universal School Choice bill has already passed the Senate, where all but one Republican voted for it and all Democrats against it.  It has enough co-sponsors to pass it in the House, where it is likely to be voted on this week.

Last session, a similar bill easily passed the senate, but stalled in the House with opposition from the Speaker and his allies.  The Speaker at the time was a liberal Republican who was elected with Democrat legislators' votes.  Governor Abbot, a strong supporter of school choice, went public against the Speaker and his liberal Republican allies in the primaries, defeating many of them and replacing them with conservatives who support school choice.  This legislative session, the Republicans in the House elected a conservative Speaker with all GOP votes, who is himself a strong supporter of school choice.

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