"Texas Governor Pushes for School Choice Amid Legislative Debates"

Texas Governor Greg Abbott is promoting a plan to create education savings accounts, which would provide families with $8,000 to use for private school tuition or other educational expenses. However, Abbott is only promoting the plan at Christian schools, which critics say is exemplary of all the problems with an education savings account program. The schools are selective in their admissions, with some allowing children only from Christian families. The legislation up for debate in the Senate promises a light regulatory touch and bars any rules that would limit a school’s ability to exercise its religious or institutional values.