The public education committee in the House now is stacked with lawmakers on both sides of the school voucher issue, making it one of the hot spots for this session’s school choice fight.
PUBLISHED 11:16 AM CST Feb. 10, 2023AUSTIN, Texas —
These appointments set the stage for what is expected to be a major school choice fight. Both Gov. Greg Abbott and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick have pledged to pass school choice legislation this session, as Patrick has pledged for almost every session he has been in office. Then Patrick went on to make the argument that school choice makes sense in the denser, more urban parts of the state. Fully a third of the 1,200 or so of the school districts in the state have fewer than 500 students, Patrick said. A private school makes no sense in these areas, he added. It also often leads to opposition from rural Republican lawmakers who see that losing a handful of students can make a big dent in a small district’s budget.
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