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In 2025, Texas lawmakers passed significant education legislation including a large private school voucher program, increased public school funding, teacher pay raises, and measures to regulate student discipline, religious activities, and parental control, while failing to eliminate the STAAR standardized test.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro has signed a $45.5 billion budget into law, ending a month-long impasse. The budget was held up due to disagreement over a private-school voucher program, which Shapiro vetoed. The Senate returned to Harrisburg and sent the budget bill to the governor for his signature, allowing over $44 billion of the state budget to flow to government entities. Another $1.1 billion is held up until lawmakers negotiate the necessary code bills. Shapiro faced criticism from both parties, but he touted the budget as a bipartisan achievement.
A coalition with wealthy backers is pushing Pennsylvania lawmakers to use public dollars to create tuition vouchers so K-12 students can attend private schools, an idea Gov. Josh Shapiro’s administration has reiterated that he’s on board with, to the dismay of many of his fellow Democrats. Private school voucher proposals have proliferated in legislatures across the country in recent years, and as Pennsylvania’s June 30 budget deadline approaches, supporters in the commonwealth hope to wrap the measure into the budget deal.