School Choice in Texas: Fact vs. Fiction It’ll kill public schools! It’ll kill private schools! It empowers globalism! The money will be wasted! It won’t help lower-income students! It won’t help special needs students! It imposes controls on homeschoolers! There aren’t any private schools in my town! Think of Education Savings Accounts as scholarships available for pre-K through 12th grade: - You have to apply to get one, - You decide how to apply the funds, and - You can only apply them wherever or however you attend school. But the details matter a LOT, and they address the concerns listed above. So let’s look at Texas Senate Bill 2 as filed by Senator Creighton and see what it actually contains and what that means: 1/19

@amyDfennell In Texas, government frequently subsidizes toll roads as well. The analogy fails. We also already have Texas state funds applied to private pre-k, special ed, and college programs. Didn't see you opposing any of those. What's magically different about K-12 non-special-ed?

Great things are about to happen at the USDA.

@olcott4texas Congratulations!

@lynnsdavenport @Davy1836 @TexasGOP Cool, so you opposed it at the time and the voters soundly rejected your arguments. Not surprising.

RT @rpetty: Despite all of his business connections to government, @elonmusk is putting it ALL at risk for the American people. @doge is d…

RT @elonmusk: This is you with federal taxpayer money

@StacyLynn624 The school for my deaf brother said they were thrilled if deaf kids graduated with a 5th grade reading level. My parents moved him to a different school and his life has been forever better as a result. Parents need as many options as possible - for ALL kids.

@Davy1836 @TexasGOP See, you couldn't even get that quote right. It's "and funding should follow the student". Not "the funding", not "my funding", just "funding". The voters can read. It comes from the state budget, just like SB2 sets. You keep trying to twist things, but they're plain as day.

@jgwagner911 @scottbraddock Both are true statements because they're talking about different things. See my reply to Scott above.

That's what happens when the opposition moves the goalpost. The original "you'll defund schools" was actually "you'll take the budget for the ESAs out of the Pub Ed budget". So the response was, "no, we won't do that". Once that was guaranteed not to happen in SB2 it's now "but schools will lose Average Daily Allotment money even if you don't take the ESA money from the Pub Ed budget". So now the response is "schools will only lose ADA money if parents pull a lot of kids". It's more interesting that the exact same people are claiming at the same time (not in response to moving goalposts) that: $6,160 is all the state provides, BUT the ADA hit is over $10k, and that SB2 can only help 35,000 Texas kids, BUT their local district will lose a proportion of 280,000 kids

RT @Mahaleris: Gov. @GregAbbott_TX created Education Savings Accounts for special needs students five years ago It provided $1500 in grant…

@Burrows4TX Thank you, Mr. Speaker!

RT @VoteGiovanni: Texas DOGE is here. #txlege

@HonShawnThierry Nice!

@Davy1836 @TexasGOP The twisting and selective editing continues. Nice.

@bradj_TX Ds are about to be tricked into wasting a billion dollars in Texas again.

@Davy1836 @TexasGOP You keep claiming that, but then again you don't represent the bill or any support of it honestly, and you're not even open enough to post the proposition wording on your post about... the proposition wording.

@CognitaVagabond @LoewyLawFirm @TexasGOP Actually, we are, and it's in the platform.

@GregAbbott_TX Absolutely!