In deep-red Texas, officials warn GOP plans to give parents money for home or private schools could doom rural public education.
Without a quality public school, advocates say small towns like Robert Lee will struggle.The PACs spent millions of dollars over the past decade backing the GOP primary opponents of Seliger and other moderate Republicans, ousting a handful of legislators and winning concessions from others. Seliger always managed to hold on to his seat — until last year, just as the backlash against school diversity programs was beginning to supercharge the nationwide movement for private school vouchers.
The interests of public schools in those communities, Seliger argued, are no longer fully represented in the Texas Senate. The biggest political controversy Hood has dealt with in recent years has been over the strictness of the dress code. “When you’ve got all of your students ages 5 through 18 in one building,” he said, “you sort of have to be conservative.”
“Imagine making that pitch to a rural voter,” Hood said. “You’re going to take our tax money and give it to a parent in the Dallas suburbs so their child can go to an expensive private school? Absolutely not.” In a statement, the bill’s Republican author, state Sen. Brandon Creighton, framed the legislation as a compromise between “parents, educators, employers and students.”
It’s not just sporting events that make the school the center of the town’s identity. It’s where residents host potluck fundraisers to help pay a loved one’s medical bills, or gather for the annual Robert Lee BBQ Cookoff. There’s no gym or YMCA in Robert Lee, but the school weight room is open to the public in the evenings and on weekends. So is the playground.
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