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Excerpt from www.reformaustin.org
While public school administrators plan budgets for the upcoming school year that mandate layoffs and loss of services, rural and metro area districts face the grim reality that the state legislature continues to fail to provide adequate funding, choosing to hold funding hostage to pro-voucher advocates in the state.
The recently formed group, Rural Texas Conservative Coalition, was onhand in the exhibit hall at the Texas GOP convention in San Antonio in May to urge support for public schools. A voucher program financially could prove disastrous for rural communities.
The group’s website says that rural public schools have faced numerous challenges that threaten the quality of education and the very existence of rural communities. They were launched just in time for the 2024 convention at the Henry B. González Convention Center to voice opposition to the pro-voucher elements in the party.
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