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"...years, the Texas Legislature has considered what proponents call "school choice" and opponents call "vouchers": diverting the state's public..."

"...Can Texas avoid further school finance lawsuits? That's what House Public Education Committee Chair..."

"...Public school advocates are calling it a shady, backroom maneuver. Late..."

"...put a push behind a key red-meat issue like school choice, be it vouchers or private school tax credits...."

"...A school died in Austin this week. The causes were definitely..."

"...pleasant memories – was the déjà vu death of school vouchers...."

"...deficit had ballooned from $60 million to $89 million, school board Trustee Candace Hunter broached a nearly forbidden topic...."

"...Is Greg Abbott fantasizing or what? On Monday, the..."

"...the Texas House, has two children in Austin ISD schools. "My fifth-grader didn't get a teacher this year because..."

"...As a mother, I volunteer in my children's elementary school. I have served as a room parent, listened to..."

"...finally released his ruling yesterday on the Texas public school finance system, it was no surprise to anyone: The..."

"...to build a recording studio at nearby Kealing Middle School...."

"...began the session optimistically, pushing House Bill 100, a school funding bill that would have provided $5 billion to..."

"...The special House committee established to study school vouchers hasn’t exactly come out in support of them,..."

"...the district’s legal counsel has made clear that little choice exists...."

"...you hear a critic say, "It was a difficult choice, but...," take a drink...."

"...On Nov. 6, voters in the Austin Inde­pen­dent School District won't just be selecting new trustees. They will..."

"...House Bill 3, the session's marquee school finance legislation, survived over three hours of debate on..."

"...humanitarian mission in support of his Foundation for Educational Choice, a voucher-promoting operation that helped lay the ideological groundwork..."

"...The death of Johnston High School was a painful, five-year process. But the birth of..."

"...It's been 10 years since the Austin Independent School District last searched for a new superintendent, and to..."

"...Two days after Austin high school students staged walkouts across the city to champion abortion..."

"...anti-LGBTQ state official from Houston meddled in the Dallas-area school district after it approved rules in late April that..."

"...spent the whole first week cleaning the abandoned elementary school we were all living in, because it was so..."

"...proposed $246 billion two-year budget included decisions to ban school vouchers, restrict some funding to the office of Texas..."

"...an experiment and the decisions about going back into school buildings are being made by people who have either..."

"...as part of its new A-F accountability system, five schools in the Austin Independent School District received failing grades...."

"...summer, 21-year-old Melinda Shaw will finally graduate from high school. The slender, ponytailed African-American dropped out of school at..."

"...of technological innovation -- present-day realities in the state's school system stand out like smallpox sores. Texas leads in..."

"...But schools are under increasing pressure to prepare students for college,..."