AUSTIN, Texas (KWTX) - Texas lawmakers approved a controversial bill in Austin early Thursday morning. The school choice bill was passed in an 85-62 vote – two were absent. The measure will ...

AUSTIN — A school choice program that would help Texas families pay for private schools and provide teacher pay raises and a state funding boost to public schools appeared to die late Wednesday ...

Photo: Jenny Kane/AP/Jay Janner/Austin American ... the state’s first private school choice program. On Thursday he won, as the House voted 86-61 to pass it. Texas hasn’t passed a private ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is expected to sign House Bill 2 today, a bill providing $8.5 billion in funding for public schools, at an event in Salado.

The funding plan looks to provide much-needed dollars to a public school system that has struggled under previous funding ...

saying it gives all Texas parents an additional choice. A relative few Republicans in the House and all Democrats said this program will hurt public schools because when public school students ...

A $1 billion voucher program, touted as “the largest school-choice program in American history,” will go toward students’ ...