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Governor Greg Abbott ’s School Choice Plan was introduced in 2023. It allows students to be given an education savings account in the amount of nearly $8,000 to attend a private school. The ...
As per the bill’s fiscal analysis, the cost of the public school funding and a school choice program would grow 502% over five years, from $1.85 billion next year to $11.1 billion in 2028.
The public school funding and a school choice program would grow 502% over five years, from $1.85 billion next year to $11.1 billion in 2028, according to the bill’s fiscal analysis.
The Robin Hood Plan is a colloquialism given to a provision of Texas Senate Bill 7 (73rd Texas Legislature) (the provision is officially referred to as "recapture"), originally enacted by the U.S. state of Texas in 1993 (and revised frequently since then) to provide equity of school financing within all school districts in the state of Texas.
In his House Bill 1, House Education Chairman Rep. Brad Buckley, R-Killeen, proposed a 180-page bill that would increase public school funding and phase in a school choice program over several years.
Texas House Bill 588, commonly referred to as the "Top 10% Rule", is a Texas law passed in 1997. It was signed into law by then governor George W. Bush on May 20, 1997. The law guarantees Texas students who graduated in the top ten percent of their high school class automatic admission to all state-funded universities.
House Bill (HB) 3261, enacted by the 87th Texas Legislature in 2021, requires state assessments to be administered online by the 2022–2023 school year. This will require most students to test online, except students taking the STAAR Alternate 2 assessment and students who require accommodations that cannot be provided online.
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