Larry D. Lauer

When Gov. Abbott began using the term “school voucher” many suspected that he really had in mind using public funds to expand overall thinking about school choice,,, which would also favor well-to-do Texas citizens, broaden acceptance of the whole idea, and thereby reduce the funding needed for public schools.

Talented teachers must be rewarded for their good work helping their more troubled students find ways out of poverty and the influences or alcoholic parents, drugs, and neighborhood gangs. This is especially important today! Powerful Texan Republicans must wake-up to this critical need.

The tradition in American democracy has been to use public money to fund only public schools. Today, they desperately need more funding. Private schools have always done just fine.

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