In private school voucher push, Gov. Abbott breaks through by playing hardball

In private school voucher push, Gov. Abbott breaks through by playing hardball

Early Wednesday evening in the Texas House, Rep. James Talarico made a last-ditch play to derail the chamber’s private school voucher bill. The pitch: put the issue up for a statewide vote in November.

Abbott Opposes Proposal To Put Vouchers On The Ballot, Despite Precedent - Reform Austin

Loading the Elevenlabs Text to Speech AudioNative Player… The Texas House on Wednesday killed an amendment to the state’s private school voucher bill that would have put the program to a statewide vote in order to be approved, a change that Gov. Greg Abbott had reportedly opposed. The final vote on a motion to table that amendment was 86-62. Abbott was privately pushing back against a proposal from some House Republicans to let Texans vote on sc…