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Plainview ISD trustee describes TASB advocacy trip, warns of potential impacts from educational savings accounts
Summary
Trustee Sylvia Dela Garza reported on a Texas Association of School Boards (TASB) trip to Austin where trustees met legislators, received training on advocacy and discussed House Bill 3 (educational savings accounts), Senate Bill 26 (teacher pay) and related funding questions.
Trustee Sylvia Dela Garza said she joined other trustees in Austin to meet with legislators and TASB staff on March 13 to advocate for Plainview ISD students and to learn how pending bills could affect the district.
"House Bill 3 is the one that's ESA, and that's called the educational savings account," Trustee Sylvia Dela Garza said. "To me, it's a . . . we call it the billionaires' trust fund." She summarized the benefit levels discussed at TASB sessions as about $2,000 for some families not enrolled in private school and roughly $10,000–$11,000 for those enrolled in private schools, as she reported the figures during her board report.
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