Texas Education Headlines

As Texas lawmakers brawled over a school voucher plan this spring, scrutiny centered on whether to fund private school students' tuition with taxpayer dollars. But an overlooked group of students may be some of the program's biggest beneficiaries: homeschoolers, who can receive up to $2,000 a year. More than a half million Texas children are in homeschool, nearly double the private school population. The Legislature's fiscal analysis of the voucher law estimates that around 270,000 would apply in the program's first year, meaning they could account for a majority of the available $1 billion.

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Michael Spurlin
ATPE
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I was at dinner the other night, and someone mentioned that if a student is expelled from a private school, they can't enroll in a public school because they would have already used the $10,000. Is this true?

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Denise Braun [Designation]
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Cypress-Fairbanks ISD
Tomball TX
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Original Message:
Sent: 06-27-2025 04:48 PM
From: Michael Spurlin
Subject: Why most Texas vouchers could go to homeschoolers, not private schools

As Texas lawmakers brawled over a school voucher plan this spring, scrutiny centered on whether to fund private school students' tuition with taxpayer dollars. But an overlooked group of students may be some of the program's biggest beneficiaries: homeschoolers, who can receive up to $2,000 a year. More than a half million Texas children are in homeschool, nearly double the private school population. The Legislature's fiscal analysis of the voucher law estimates that around 270,000 would apply in the program's first year, meaning they could account for a majority of the available $1 billion.

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Michael Spurlin
ATPE
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