Texas’ school voucher program could be ‘unrecognizable, if not extinct,’ says Democratic lawmaker

Gov. Greg Abbott’s vision for education was finally coming together. This year, the state launched a voucher program that allowed roughly 110,000 of Texas’ more than 5 million schoolchildren to get a private education using taxpayer dollars. Abbott’s appointee at the Texas Education Agency, Commissioner Mike Morath, was leading the state’s largest takeover of public schools in recent history. And the Texas State Board of Education, with Abbott’s support, helped pass a new social studies curriculum that required teaching Bible stories and shifted away from world history to focus on Texas and the United States. On Tuesday night, as Democrats clinched nearly every office in the state, it all began to unravel. In a speech after denying Abbott a fourth term, Gov.-elect Gina Hinojosa called for a reversal of his education agenda. She pledged to fire Morath and to end the public school takeovers.

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