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, he promoted vouchers to parents at Cypress Christian School Tuesday night, telling them that he doesn't want to use tax dollars"to teach our kids to hate our country."
The accounts are a part of Senate Bill 8, which would provide parents who pull their children out of public school would be eligible to receive $8,000 per child each year. Private schools in Houston, however, can cost as much as $30,000 with the average last year at $23,644, according to Houston-based General Academics consulting company.
The second concern is that they will draw students away from public schools, and in turn drain funding from public education. He vowed that all public schools will be fully funded for all students under the proposed legislation. The bill was mostly about empowering parents with choice, he said. In its current state it would give parents the right to review instructional material to verify lessons are age-appropriate and on-grade-level. Instruction concerning sexual orientation and gender identity would be prohibited for all grades.
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