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Gov. Greg Abbott pitches education savings accounts, pledges full funding for public schools
Summary
Governor Greg Abbott held a press event with parents to promote Education Savings Accounts, saying the state would maintain separate funding for public schools and ESAs, pledge higher teacher pay and increased school funding, and dismiss concerns that ESAs would "decimate" public schools.
Governor Greg Abbott, joined by parents Monica Hess, Shana Morrison and Celeste Green, urged lawmakers to approve Education Savings Accounts (ESAs), saying the proposal would expand parents’ options while leaving public-school funding intact.
“We're not gonna take a single penny from public schools to pay for school choice,” Abbott said at the event, adding that the state would ‘‘fully fund public schools’’ during the legislative session and provide what he described as the largest teacher pay increase in state history.
Abbott said the ESA proposal would create a separate pool of money for school choice and argued the program would be smaller than Texas’…
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