(JUST THE NEWS) – Candidates who support school choice won big in Republican primaries Tuesday night in Texas. The majority of Republican primary voters also passed a nonbinding proposition supporting school choice.
School choice was a major issue on the ballot after 21 Republican members of the House voted last year to kill a school choice measure and House Republicans refused to vote on an education bill the Senate repeatedly passed with bipartisan support to create the state’s first Education Savings Account program.
Throughout the primary season, Gov. Greg Abbott endorsed and campaigned for candidates who he says support school choice, including those who challenged incumbent Republicans that Abbott previously endorsed. Nearly all of his endorsed candidates won or forced incumbents to a runoff.
