Voucher Bill Filed In Anticipation Of 81st Texas Legislature
Vince Leibowitz | Nov 11, 2008 | Comments 1
State Rep. Frank Corte (R-San Antonio), to nobody’s surprise, filed a voucher bill on the first day of pre-filing legislation in anticipation of the 81st Session of the Texas Legislature in Janaury.
Corte’s HB 41 provides for a pilot voucher program that would impact the state’s six largest school districts.
The bill would allow educationally disadvantaged students in the state’s six largest school districts who were enrolled in a public school for the preceding year and either failed to perform satisfactorily on the most recent assessment administered to the child under the Education Code or would be eligible to attend another school in the district to receive the vouchers.
Although the program would sunset in 2014, it opens a giant Pandora’s Box of Voucher Awfulness more so than some voucher legislation that has been discussed because it would allow the students who got the vouchers to keep receiving them until they graduated or turned 21.
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