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 ...

Texas Governor Greg Abbott signed House Bill 2 on Wednesday. The bill provides $8.5 billion in funding for public schools.

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 ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas will implement a $1 billion school voucher program ... and bill supporters say it will give parents more choice by letting them pull their children out of poor ...

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’ ...