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Comptroller requests doubling Texas school voucher program to $2 billion

This is the first year for education savings accounts, which allow Texas families to use taxpayer dollars for private or home schooling.

Texas’ chief financial officer requested that lawmakers double the amount of money available for the state’s private school voucher program, resulting in a total of more than $2 billion.  In the appropriations request for 2028–29 biennium, Texas Comptroller Don Huffines asked the Legislature to raise the program’s base funding by $1 billion so more families […]

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