School choice wins in Texas — and shows other states how it’s done
NY Post
School choice was on the ballot in Texas last week — and school choice emerged victorious.
The educational-choice movement is a once-in-a-generation political earthquake in America, and politicians in other states should take notice.
The Texas House failed in November to pass Gov. Greg Abbott’s school-choice legislation.
Twenty-one Republicans joined all Democrats to kill a groundbreaking compromise bill that would have created Texas’ first private school-choice program, sent $7 billion extra to public schools and provided $4,000 raises for public-school teachers and support staff.
But instead of empowering families, defecting Republicans voted against their party platform and their constituents.
It looked like the nation’s largest red state would continue to be a stubborn holdout on education freedom, but Abbott quickly and boldly went on the electoral warpath.
