Texas Senate Passes School Choice Bill

Friday, April 25, 2025

The Texas Senate has passed the controversial school choice bill with a vote of 19-12.

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Bail out them failing catholic schools.

#1 | Posted by Brennnn at 2025-04-24 11:19 PM | Reply

If given the choice parents aren't going to send their kids to failing schools.

#2 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-25 12:28 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

Why are there any failing schools in the first place?

#3 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-25 02:56 AM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

If given the choice parents aren't going to send their kids to failing schools.
#2 | Posted by BellRinger

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That's why Republicans don't let all parents make that choice!

That's why Republicans don't require private schools to accept students!

So yes.

Parents aren't going to send their kids to failing schools.

Republicans and private schools will decide which parents send their kids to failing schools.

#4 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-25 10:44 AM | Reply

More cash to the rich, while the poor get nothing. Fuck you, Texas.

#5 | Posted by LegallyYourDead at 2025-04-25 11:12 AM | Reply

School choice is just welfare for rich parents to send their kids to private schools.

Does the school choice cover 100% of the tuition? Average private school tuition is $22,000. This cover less than half.

Just welfare to rich white folks.

#6 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-04-25 11:21 AM | Reply

If given the choice parents aren't going to send their kids to failing schools.

#2 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

Failing schools tend to be concentrated in areas with limited resources and higher needs, often including low-income neighborhoods and urban areas. These areas frequently face challenges like inadequate funding, lower teacher quality, and fewer resources for students. Many low-performing schools also exist in states with historically underfunded school systems

And one guess as to who mostly lives in those areas?

Given a choice wealthy WHITE parents aren't going to send their kids to THOSE schools.

Everyone else has no choice.

#7 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-04-25 01:46 PM | Reply

Texas, where evolution is taught as an opinion and slavery is taught as beneficial. And schools are built next to underregulated chemical plants that explode.

I'm sure they'll produce the finest intellectuals and spawn the next silicon valley.

#8 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-04-25 01:53 PM | Reply

If given the choice parents aren't going to send their kids to failing schools.
#2 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-25 12:28 AM

You idiot. You think any parent--ANY--in a Texas "failing school" can afford private schools, even with a voucher? And even if by some miracle they could, do you think these rich, mostly white religious private schools are going to accept them?

It's like you aren't retarded, you are a dumb teenager's vision of what a retarded person would be like.

More to the point--even a scratching-the-surface analysis of Abbott's rationale fails. If any schools are failing in Texas--which I dispute but that's another issue--how the hell is decreasing the amount of money going to them going to make them better??

Once the tax money decreases because of lower ADA, the only other option is to--you guessed it!--raise property taxes. Again.

Let's call it for what it is: Abbott's billionaire donors from west Texas and out of state, and also the private school lobbyists themselves bribed him to push this bill, AND HE DID. Texans, the vast majority of them(!) do not want vouchers.

#9 | Posted by e1g1 at 2025-04-25 02:13 PM | Reply

" You think any parent--ANY--in a Texas "failing school" can afford private schools, even with a voucher? "

Where I live the public schools have a disparity in quality and giving a choice doesn't necessitate a voucher for a private school.

The left's solution to every problem is to drag everyone down to the lowest denominator and call it "equity".

#10 | Posted by BellRinger at 2025-04-25 02:28 PM | Reply | Newsworthy 1

The left's solution to every problem is to drag everyone down to the lowest denominator and call it "equity".

#10 | Posted by BellRinger

That was george w bush's solution and he called it NO CHILD LEFT BEHIND.

Was he on the left?

The left's solution is to tax the rich and make schools good everywhere. But that goes against your cult's religion of tax cuts for the rich and ignorance for everyone else.

#11 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-04-25 03:01 PM | Reply

This is a solution that will eventually cripple the failing school districts and expose the wasted tax dollars. Good for Texas. I had to sell a home and buy another in a school district because of failing schools when my children were little. It was either that, or pay for private school and failing public schools.

The other thing I don't hear people talking about is the fact that Texas has the surplus in it's budget to do this. Try that in say .... Maryland or Chicago, Illinois.

#12 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-04-25 04:16 PM | Reply

School choice is just welfare for rich parents to send their kids to private schools.

#6 | Posted by Nixon at 2025-04-25 11:21 AM | Reply | Flag:

I'm sure you'd like to believe that but the fact is, a lot of people send their children to private schools because of the condition the public schools are in.

Again, this is going to amp up the spotlight on failing school districts in Texas, something that needs to happen. Why is it OK to continue taxing the hell out of parents for their children's education when the schools are a shithole?

#13 | Posted by lfthndthrds at 2025-04-25 04:20 PM | Reply

I agree with you on this one.

#14 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-04-25 04:23 PM | Reply

"I'm sure you'd like to believe that but the fact is, a lot of people send their children to private schools because of the condition the public schools are in."

Yeah.

There not nearly enough private schools to take all the kids.

Private schools can discriminate.

That's the whole point.

#15 | Posted by snoofy at 2025-04-25 04:26 PM | Reply

Republicans constantly defund public education.

Then they complain about public schools failing.

This is just another way to do so.

It's being presented as a "choice".

But it's just another way to disenfranchise poor people.

#16 | Posted by ClownShack at 2025-04-25 04:31 PM | Reply