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ACT FOR AMERICA
GREAT STATE OF TEXAS

School Choice is Poised for Another Victory in Texas

Nov 30, 2022 | Jay P. Greene, Ph.D. | Heritage Foundation

TEXAS POLICY-MAKERS HAVE REPEATEDLY TRIED AND FAILED TO EXPAND SCHOOL
CHOICE WITHIN THEIR STATE, BUT THIS UPCOMING LEGISLATIVE SESSION WILL
BE DIFFERENT.

In the past, the key obstacle to passing choice legislation has been
school superintendents in mostly rural areas, who fear that making it
easier for Texans to send their children to private schools would
shrink public-school enrollment, reducing school districts’ funding
and faculty numbers. These local superintendents often head the
largest employer in their districts, giving them lots of clout with
elected officials. Given the lack of organization on the other side of
the issue, many rural state representatives have thus been reluctant
to back the expansion of school choice, causing bills to fall just
short year after year.

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But school choice has much better prospects in the upcoming
legislative session, for two reasons.

First, advocacy organizations have finally managed to turn support of
their cause into a litmus test for Republican candidates. They are
holding elected Republicans accountable for failing to support the
empowerment of parents, and for abandoning the position endorsed by
the party’s own platform. These advocates have recruited and funded
primary challenges to Republican legislators who block school choice,
defeating many incumbents in contests across the country. The prospect
of a serious primary challenge has served as a check on the influence
of rural school superintendents.

Second, parents in the outer suburbs and rural areas are increasingly
noticing the disconnect between the values they wish to teach their
children and what is being promoted in their schools.

The schools in small towns in Texas used to be the natural extension
of the families in those communities. But increasingly, the federal
government dictates to all public schools what pronouns people should
be called, what bathrooms they must use, and on what sports teams they
may play. Small-town Texans have seen these “woke” changes in
policy and worry that their local public schools no longer really
belong to them.

Additionally, more and more public-school administrators and
teachers—even in rural Texas—are adopting the posture that they
know better than parents what values children should be taught. As a
result, families are starting to demand more school choice to find
better private options if their public schools are going to push
values antithetical to those they are trying to convey to their own
children.

Public-school indoctrination that pushes woke values onto children
against their parents’ wishes is not confined to big cities on the
coasts. It has made its way into small-town Texas.

In Canutillo ISD outside of El Paso, a district with a little more
than 6,000 students, a book containing sexually explicit images and
language, _Gender Queer_
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was returned to school-library book shelves
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eleven-person committee containing only three parents
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charged with reviewing its appropriateness following parental
complaints. Some parents might be satisfied with that outcome, but
others are left frustrated and wondering why the school chose to spend
scarce library resources on what they consider to be pornography.
Those disgruntled parents want alternative school options.

In the Austin suburb of Georgetown, the local school district posted
videos on its website
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monthly “equity” training and declaring that “only when we equip
ourselves to see the role of implicit bias, systemic racism,
structural racialization, and poverty play, and perpetuating
achievement gaps . . . will we be able to create impactful strategies
that address the root causes of inequitable learning outcomes in our
system.” This focus on systemic racism and equity may resonate with
some parents, but others view it as divisive and believe that it
promotes reverse discrimination. Again, parents who find their local
public schools out of sync with their values are organizing to demand
more choice in their children’s educations.

As Texan parents are mobilizing to demand more school choice and
advocacy organizations are ramping up their efforts to recruit and
fund primary challenges in rural districts, the grip of rural
school-district superintendents on their state representatives is
loosening and the door to empowering parents is opening. Arizona and
West Virginia have given the movement significant victories by
adopting universal Education Savings Accounts to fund school choice.
Now, Texas is poised to build on that momentum.

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