A group of education non-profits, religious leaders, and state lawmakers take aim at an effort in the Texas Legislature to rebrand the term school voucher with terms like, “Public Education Savings Accounts.” But the school choice advocates say they’re only trying to bring more educational opportunities to more Texas children. For state Sen. Jose Menendez, a Democrat from San Antonio, a school voucher by any other name is still a voucher. Menendez is part of a group formed ahead of the 2017 legislation session called the Texas Coalition of Public Schools. “A voucher, a savings account, a tax-credit, whatever you chose to call it, it’s still a device that siphons money away from our public schools, so it doesn’t matter what you call it, we have still not restored the money we took from our public schools,” Menendez says. According to the U.S. Census Bureau’s 2016 report, Texas ranks 43rd in the nation on per-student spending. This Wednesday, members of the Texas Senate Education
Source: Texas Public Radio
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