The Texas-sized fight over a Trump education priority: School choice

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

73% : "Trump supports school choice, JD Vance supports school choice, Reagan supported school choice," Abbott said last week during a Texas Republicans dinner.
68% : "The Texas House must now pass School Choice to deliver a gigantic Victory for Texas students and parents," Trump posted Feb. 8.
49% : Enrollment is surging among these programs, although data shows that the majority of scholarships or vouchers are going to students already enrolled in private schools -- often from wealthier families -- with a smaller number of students leaving their traditional public schools.
40% : "We're a fiscally conservative state, and public dollars usually would come with public accountability, and that doesn't seem like what the voucher is aimed at," said Jennifer Easley, president of the Texas Parent Teacher Association, which opposes vouchers.
37% : The ball is now in the House's court, as it was in 2023 when it died several times at the hands of an alliance of Democrats and Republicans who were worried primarily about how vouchers would drain funding from public schools.
33% : If the pressure from Abbott wasn't enough, Trump cranked up the heat on the House lawmakers even hotter by signaling they were on his radar.

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