The bills are the House’s answer to the Texas Senate’s swift action early this session to advance education legislation, including a $1 billion annual school voucher program and $2.3 billion ...

A Texas House committee has advanced school voucher legislation that could be key to ending the protracted stalemate over the issue this year at the Capitol.

Gov. Greg Abbott said the primary showed Texans want vouchers. In House District 18, an ad blitz and immigration fears may have played a larger role.

The Texas House on Friday voted to strip school vouchers from the chamber’s massive education funding bill, taking an ax to Gov. Greg Abbott’s top legislative priority of the year.

School voucher supporters in Texas claim momentum’s on their side. The Texas House will pass “school choice” someday soon, they say. The chamber’s GOP bloc opposed to voucherlike proposals ...

The Texas House gave initial approval early Thursday to a bill that would create a $1 billion private school voucher program, crossing a historic milestone and bringing Gov. Greg Abbott’s top ...

The Texas House is expected to vote Wednesday on bills to create a $1 billion private school voucher program and give public schools more funding per student, setting up what ...

The Texas House Education Committee's discussion about school vouchers foreshadows fights to come in the legislative session. News Sports Hookem.com Austin360 Opinion Advertise Obituaries ...

House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, called his chamber's school finance bill, House Bill 2, and school voucher bill, House Bill 3, “the Texas two-step.” ...

The committee action means school voucher legislation is poised to get its first House floor vote in recent history. Gov. Greg Abbott said if the Legislature fails to pass it this time, he will ...