Recent years have not been kind to Texas’s public schools. Because of soaring inflation and paltry funding, many districts large and small are facing the prospect of insolvency. Citing low morale and low pay, educators have been fleeing the profession at unusually high rates. In many subjects and across grades, test scores still have not recovered from learning disruptions during the pandemic. The list goes on. Yet as the 2025 Texas Legislature gets underway, elected officials are mostly fixated on a fight over school vouchers, which have long been unpopular in the state. (Bills have been consistently defeated over the decades by a coalition of rural Republicans and urban Democrats.) Before 2022, Governor Greg Abbott had offered lukewarm support for vouchers. Then prior to the 2023…
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