Sylvia Garcia on Education

	Sylvia Garcia on Education

Texas school choice bill grabs funding from public schools

Sen. Jose Menendez of San Antonio and Sen. Sylvia Garcia of Houston, both Democrats, echoed concerns from education advocates that the bill shifted lawmakers' focus from spending on public schools. "On the surface, this sounds wonderful, but I don't think in practice this works as well as it sounds," Menendez said. "I don't believe that this system, when we're far from perfecting our public school system -- I don't think this is the answer." Source: San Antonio Express-News on 2018 Congress TX-29 election , Mar 30, 2017

Oppose vouchers for students to leave public schools

The programs proposed in Senate Bill 3 would offer money to public school students to leave the system for private schools or homeschooling. Sen. Van Taylor, R-Plano, who voted for the measure, argued that would help school districts, especially those growing so quickly that they are having trouble funding the additional enrollment. "There actually will be more money per child in the public education system in Texas," he said.

Legislative Summary: CSSB 3, Relating to the establishment of an education savings account program and a tax credit scholarship and educational expense assistance program.

Legislative Outcome: The motion prevailed by the

Source: Texas Tribune on legislative voting record CSSB3 , Mar 23, 2017

PVS:Federal education standards in all states.

Garcia supports the PVS survey question on education standards

Project Vote Smart inferred whether candidates agree or disagree with the statement, 'Education: Do you support requiring states to adopt federal education standards?' PVS self-description: "The Political Courage Test provides voters with positions on key issues. Historically, candidates have failed to complete our test due to the advice they receive from their advisors and out of fear of negative attack ads."

Source: PVS Survey 18PVS-7 on Aug 1, 2018

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