By the fall of 2026, the number of American K–12 students eligible for publicly funded school choice scholarships is expected to exceed 50 percent.
That’s presuming Texas Gov. Greg Abbott soon signs into law a $1 billion bill that covers private school vouchers and other education-related expenses, according to the American Federation for Children, a nonprofit organization that promotes and tracks school choice growth.
It says Abbott’s move would push the total number of children served by universal school choice laws into the national majority.
“This is over 20 years in the making,” Ryan Cantrell, the organization’s president of government affairs, told The Epoch Times. “Texas could provide a blueprint for a lot of places.”…