by (in alphabetical order) John Garrett Clawson, Reynaldo de la Garza, Victoria Keller, Sarah Pollock, Laurie Roberts,
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In Texas, SB 1178 outlined a proposed ESA program that may be modeled in subsequent proposals, although it ultimately failed to pass in the Committee on Public Education in the Texas House of Representatives in 2015. In 2016, the 85th Texas Senate was tasked with investigating the academic success and fiscal impact of similar programs in other states, including Arizona, Mississippi, Nevada, Florida and Tennessee (Patrick, 2016). While these programs have different names from state to state, the fundamental features are essentially the same.
ESAs share several programmatic characteristics with schools voucher programs. Consequently, many of those that support the school voucher concept support ESA initiatives as well. Those that oppose such voucher proposals are also likely to reject ESA programs.
Because ESAs seek to accomplish goals similar to school voucher programs, political sentiment on both sides of the aisle are quite similar in nature. For more information about ideology and school choice, see the school choice page.
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O'Dell, Rob, and Yvonne W. Sanchez. "State Money Helping Wealthier Arizona Kids Go to Private Schools." The Arizona Republic. Last modified July 7, 2016. http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/politics/education/2016/02/23/state-money-helping-wealthier-arizona-kids-go-private-schools/80303730/.
“School Choice in America,” EdChoice, last modified Oct. 28, 2016, http://www.edchoice.org/school-choice/school-choice-in-america.
S.B. 1178, Texas 84th Cong. (2015).
S.B. 2695, Mississippi 114th Cong. (2015).
S.B. 302, Nevada 302nd Cong. (2015).
S.B. 431, Tennessee 431st Cong. (2015).
Arizona. Senate. 2013. reg. sess. Phoenix. SB 1363 Fiscal Note. Schimpp, Steve. 2013.
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