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WASHINGTON (AP) — A Republican plan to expand private school vouchers nationwide was dealt a major setback Friday when the ...

A first-of-its-kind effort to leverage federal tax dollars to help families pay for private school tuition anywhere in the U.S. is one step closer to becoming a reality.

Tucked within House Republicans' 389-page budget reconciliation package, which President Donald Trump has dubbed his "big, beautiful bill," is a nationwide private school voucher proposal.

Abbott signed school vouchers into law May 3, at the same time House Bill 2, which earmarks $8 billion for public schools in the state, is stalled in the legislature.

With a big win for school vouchers in Texas in the early hours of Thursday morning, the private-school choice movement conquered the last major Republican-led state. Next up, the rest of the country.

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 ...

Texas Republicans would route $1 billion in public funds to vouchers for private and home schools. Professor Josh Cowen says research shows such programs actually damage students.

House Republicans want to set aside up to $5 billion a year for scholarships to help families send their children to private and religious schools, an unprecedented effort to use public money to ...

The proposal — which would create scholarships of up to $5,000 per student — marks the farthest that proponents of school vouchers have ever gotten toward expanding school vouchers nationwide.