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- **Posted:** 2025-04-16T20:56:53.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** McCallum Journalism (@macjournalism) — https://gondola.cc/macjournalism

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Anti-voucher protesters gather in the Texas State Capitol rotunda. They chanted slogans like “Fund our schools,” “no to vouchers,” and “let the people vote.” 

The Texas House of Representatives is debating public education bills today. One of them is Senate Bill 2, the voucher bill, which would create a $1 billion private school voucher program, which would give participants $10,000 a year to attend private schools.

Discussion is anticipated to go all day and if the House approves the bill, it will make its way back to the Senate which approved a different version of the bill in February. 

House Bill 2, a $8 billion proposal which would increase public school funding, will also be considered by the House today. It will increase the student basic allotment by $1,300 which will bring funding back to the levels it should have been in 2019.

With a busy day in the House chamber, people flooded into the Capitol to support and reject proposals, particularly the voucher bill. The Texas Freedom Network organized hundreds of activists to gather in the Capitol’s rotunda to protest vouchers.

Emily Witt who has been a part of the Texas Freedom Network for more than three years said that it has been a priority of theirs to organize events like these in hopes of preventing proposals like vouchers which she believes will negatively affect public schools. 

“We’ve been fighting back against vouchers for about 30 years,” Witt said. “From our perspective, vouchers drain public funds from our public schools and give them to private and religious schools that can discriminate against Texas kids.”

To read Lillian Gray’s news update story from today’s events so far at the Capitol, please click the first link in our bio or visit macshieldonline.

#vouchers #allotment #publiceducation #texaslegislature #texasleg

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