School Choice in Texas Hindered by Legislators’ Hypocrisy

Neither rain, nor snow, nor legislator hypocrisy can keep Governor Greg Abbott off the school-choice trail. This week, as in weeks past, the governor has crisscrossed the Lone Star State extolling the virtues of education freedom. And on Wednesday, in a hearing on a prospective universal education-savings-account law, expert witnesses and parents testified in favor of the proposal into the wee hours of the night.

What are the prospects of school choice in Texas? For years, education-choice advocates have lamented the lack of schooling options in the red state. Proponents have been likened to Charlie Brown, optimistically believing that they’ll finally kick the football, only to have Lucy pull it away at the last minute.

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Lindsey M. Burke

Lindsey M. Burke is the director of the Center for Education at the Heritage Foundation.

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Corey DeAngelis

Corey DeAngelis is a research fellow at the Heritage Foundation and a senior fellow at Americans for Fair Treatment.

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Neither rain, nor snow, nor legislator hypocrisy can keep Governor Greg Abbott off the school-choice trail. This week, as in weeks past, the governor has crisscrossed the Lone Star State extolling the virtues of education freedom. And on Wednesday, in a hearing on a prospective universal education-savings-account law, expert witnesses and parents testified in favor of the proposal into the wee hours of the night.

What are the prospects of school choice in Texas? For years, education-choice advocates have lamented the lack of schooling options in the red state. Proponents have been likened to Charlie Brown, optimistically believing that they’ll finally kick the football, only to have Lucy pull it away at the last minute.