The Texas House on Thursday filed a sweep of education bills including public school finance and school voucher proposals.

A flurry of bills filed in the Texas House on Thursday tackle public school funding, STAAR tests, teacher quality and a ...

Public school advocates oppose any plan resembling school vouchers saying such programs drain resources from the campuses ...

Families participating in the program could receive about 85% of the amount public schools collect for each attending student ...

Texas House Speaker Dustin Burrows said Thursday that creating a private-school voucher program in Texas is “the defining ...

Supporters of voucher-like education savings accounts are trying to press their advantage early and build a sense of ...

House Bill 3 proposes allocating $1 billion to a program that would allow approximately 100,000 students to use state funds ...

The House bill filed by state Rep. Brad Buckley would offer private school vouchers to all Texas students, including ...

The proposal, filed Thursday, comes well short of the increase school administrators and education advocates have been asking ...

House Bill 3 would put $1 billion toward Education Savings Accounts (ESA) to allow Texas families to use taxpayer dollars to ...

Texas House Bill 3 introduces private school vouchers, stirring debate about educational funding and school choice.

The Odessa American is the leading source of local news, information, entertainment and sports for the Permian Basin.