| Texas' School Voucher Program Could Be 'Unrecognizable, If Not Extinct,' Says Democratic Lawmaker Texas Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa at a rally in Austin on Election Day. Leila Saidane for The Texas Tribune Texas Gov. Greg Abbott's vision for education was finally coming together. This year, the state launched a voucher program that allowed roughly 110,000 of Texas' more than 5 million schoolchildren to get a private education using taxpayer dollars. Abbott's loyal appointee at the Texas Education Agency, Commissioner Mike Morath, was leading the state's largest takeover of public schools in recent history. And the Texas State Board of Education, with Abbott's support, helped pass a controversial new social studies curriculum that required teaching Bible stories and shifted away from world history to focus on Texas and the United States. |
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