The Texas Senate Committee on Education had a marathon meeting Tuesday discussing SB1.
The proposal written by Sen. Brandon Creighton, R-Conroe, would establish an education savings account. If passed and signed into law, the program would be housed in the state comptroller’s office withSB 1 would give $8,000 of taxpayer dollars to participating students for private school tuition, purchasing textbooks, uniforms, transportation, and others.
“Our lawmakers have the opportunity right now, to meet their promise to fully fund public education and to stop holding our children, teachers, and families hostage to school voucher negotiations,” Gregorski said in the letter. “The state did allocate $4 billion for public school funding but right now those funds remain unspent,” Gregorski said to KPRC 2′s Rilwan Balogun. “They’re just sitting there. That’s what I’d like seen done is some action on those current funds that are sitting there, the 4 billion dollars, that could be allocated immediately to public schools.”
Gregorski said the district has increased “utility costs, fuel, insurance, cafeteria food, construction costs, and other operational expenses.”“It’s going to be hard on the district,” Gregorski said. “There are going to be constraints on the budget each year.”
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