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"...created was legal "education" or illegal "promotion." Subsequently, the school superintendent quit, and an ethics complaint filed against a..."

"...few weeks ago, one could scarcely hear the word "vouchers" pass the lips of a candidate. Perhaps they noticed..."

"...first ran for District 7 in the Austin Independent School District, "It was the PTA folks who ran for..."

"...A few years from now, local school board races – from rural hamlets to growing suburbs..."

"...rhetoric. ... It's a neat little carrot"); and even "school choice" (that is, vouchers). Neeley said her own experience..."

"...back. That's how Texas lawmakers have treated the state's school finance system, and now even the chair of the..."

"...state Republicans wanted the House to lap up private school vouchers, touted as a panacea by Gov. Rick Perry,..."

"...tank sat in conclave with arch-Republican Jim DeMint about school choice...."

"...Through October, legislators have been debating whether public school money should be diverted to pay for Texans' private..."

"...A Fix for School Finance?..."

"...A bill to enact private-school voucher programs in Texas was expected to clear the..."

"...to sit next to Da’Taeveyon Daniels, a 17-year-old high school student from Fort Worth, at Monday’s panel on the..."

"...After taking a break for MLK Day, the high-school hijinks resumed, with Patrick deposing Seliger from the Agriculture..."

"...the 24 rural Republican lawmakers who had voted against vouchers in April did so again, joining Democrats in the..."

"...Texas' public schools received no new funding in the recently concluded legislative..."

"...in East Texas. In the auditorium of Frankston High School in Anderson County, the Tyler League of Women Voters..."

"...to return more decision-making power to parents and local school authorities, which they hoped would encourage some innovation in..."

"...so on Monday, as the new special session on school vouchers kicked off. During an impromptu news conference, he..."

"...Vouchers Are Fetch: Politicians who oppose school vouchers aren’t very..."

"...Ongoing lawsuits filed by school districts against the current system are holding everything in..."

"...As strange as it might sound, parents and school officials are questioning whether the Texas Education Agency –..."

"...brat, but I'm a fifth-generation Texan, went to high school and junior high in Dallas, I've got a lot..."

"...The future of school vouchers in Texas doesn't lie on the floor of..."

"...campaign estimated that Leininger, along with other advocates of school vouchers, contributed some $700,000 to Perry's campaign. As an..."

"...this month, the hallways were packed at Anderson High's back-to-school night. Parents jammed the cafeteria, crowding around tables for..."

"...I am," she gushed, sounding more like a giddy schoolgirl than the "tough grandma" moniker that's helped carry her..."

"...the remaining $11.5 billion would go toward education. Local school district tax rates would be somewhere around 15 cents,..."

"...As proposals for public school voucher programs and related school issues are once again..."

"...conservatives want to put God in biology textbooks or private-school vouchers into the public school system. Now, after six..."

"...discriminatory legislation by tacking a youth-targeted amendment onto the school finance bill, HB 21, though on Monday night that..."