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

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 ...

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.