Three terms are coming up over and over again this legislative session: school choice, school vouchers and education savings accounts. They’re all related to the goal of giving families state money to send their kids to nonpublic schools.
One of the first steps to understanding the debate over this issue is getting a handle on what each term means.
A PRIMER ON TERMINOLOGY
School choice
This might seem like a cop-out, but school choice actually has a couple of different meanings. Public education advocates say families already have school choice because they can typically choose which campus to send their kids to within their local school district. Another choice families have in Texas is applying to enter charter schools. But, for the purposes of the state Legislature, school choice refers to programs that give families the option to use taxpayer money to pay for private school or other alternatives to public education.
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