When the Texas state House education committee held a hearing on a proposed voucher bill on March 11, parent Hollie Plemons was among the first people to arrive in the committee room. She’d spend much of the next twelve hours in the cramped, crowded space, waiting for her chance at the mic. And when her name was finally called, she didn’t hold back.
“I told them exactly how bad this bill is and that we’re being bamboozled by our own party,” recalls Plemons, a Republican Party activist and precinct chair in Tarrant County. “Vouchers aren’t conservative. They’re just not.”
In recent years, “school choice” programs that allow families to use public tax dollars to pay for alternatives…