Families, educators, and advocates are pushing Texas lawmakers to pass public school funding bills now that the school voucher program has become a reality.
Gov. Greg Abbott officially signed the controversial $1 billion school choice bill into law on Saturday. The program uses taxpayer funds to help qualifying students pay for private school tuition.
“We saw a lot of talk at the beginning of this session about what the governor was calling the Texas Two-Step, which was we’re going to pass the voucher bill, and then we’re going to pass a large public school funding bill,” said Jill Hill, a Coppell mom and member of Communities United for Public Education. “And so, the voucher bill has passed, and now this one is languishing.”…