Texas House lawmakers filed a sweep of education-related legislation Thursday including a school voucher proposal and a funding bill that would invest $8 billion in public education. The bills are ...

House Speaker Dustin Burrows, R-Lubbock, called his chamber's school finance bill, House Bill 2, and school voucher bill, House Bill 3, “the Texas two-step.” ...

On Wednesday, lawmakers in the Texas House are expected to hear and debate bills that would create a private school voucher program. Senate Bill 2 has already been passed in the upper chamber and ...

A Texas House committee has advanced school voucher legislation that could be key to ending the protracted stalemate over the issue this year at the Capitol.

Texas Rep. Harold V. Dutton Jr., D-Houston, proposes an amendment to Senate Bill 2, the private school voucher program, as the Texas House of Representatives debates the bill on April 16.

School voucher supporters in Texas claim momentum’s on their side. The Texas House will pass “school choice” someday soon, they say. The chamber’s GOP bloc opposed to voucherlike proposals ...

The Texas House on Friday voted to strip school vouchers from the chamber’s massive education funding bill, taking an ax to Gov. Greg Abbott’s top legislative priority of the year.

Gov. Greg Abbott said the primary showed Texans want vouchers. In House District 18, an ad blitz and immigration fears may have played a larger role.

The Texas House is expected to vote Wednesday on bills to create a $1 billion private school voucher program and give public schools more funding per student, setting up what ...