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House District 56 Hopefuls eye Bosque, Border, Education (Waco Trib, December 20,2023)
School vouchers spur challenger's run in House District 13 (Waco Trib, December 22,23)
Pat Curry takes Republican nomination for House District 56 (Waco Trib, March 6, 2024)
Q&A with Texas House candidate Albert Hunter: Retired teacher vows to safeguard schools (Waco Trib, October 4, 2024) (PDF version)
Q&A with Erin Shank for Texas House District 56 (PDF version)
Q&A with Pat Curry for Texas House District 56 (PDF Version)

Articles/Op-eds on Public School issues

Funding - Soaring costs, flat funding push schools into red in Waco, statewide (Waco Trib, August 5, 2024)
Funding - Waco ISD may drop pay hikes, cut positions in face of $14M budget deficit (April 5, 2024)
Funding - Amy Dobson: Make Public Education a Priority (Waco Trib, June 28, 2024)
Vouchers - Scott Milder: Voucher programs fail everywhere they are adopted (Waco Trib, June 6, 2024)
Funding, Vouchers - Angelo Ochoa: A Trial Separation is better for the Kids (May 24, 2024)
Vouchers - School Voucher Schemes are Spreading Across America. (The Economist, March 30, 2023)
Vouchers - 'No Accountability': Vouchers Wreak Havoc on States. (NEA Today, February 2, 2024)
Destructive Rhetoric - Texas school board member disavows the far-right platform she campaigned on (The Texas Tribune, May 15, 2024)
Vouchers - Impact of the Indiana Choice Scholarship Program: Achievement Effects for Students in Upper Elementary and Middle
School, R. Joseph Waddington, Mark Berends, Journal of Policy Analysis and Management (2018)
Vouchers - Arizona’s ‘universal’ education savings account program has become a handout to the wealthy, Brookings, May 7, 2024
Vouchers - Voucher plan is well-funded attack on public schools - David DeMatthews and David S. Knight, San Antonio Express News, August 8, 2024.
Vouchers - Billions in taxpayer dollars now go to religious schools via vouchers - Laura Meckler & Michelle Boorstein, June 3, 2024
Vouchers - Report: Arizona’s Voucher Report Card Shows Much Room For Improvement (Forbes, January 12, 2024)
Vouchers - Indiana private school vouchers hit record with 70,000 students, nearly half-billion dollar cost, May 24, 2024
Vouchers - Do school vouchers boost learning? Not really. : The Indicator from Planet Money : NPR
Vouchers - Vouchers Won't Help Low Income Kids - Ashley Bean Thornton, Waco Trib, 9.14.24
Funding/Vouchers: Kent Grusendorf: Voucher push benefits public education (Kent Grusendorf, Waco Trib, September 16, 2024)
Funding/Vouchers: Angelo Ochoa: Our school buildings aren't lavish, but finding common ground is needed (Angelo Ochoa, Waco Trib, September 18, 2024)
Funding/Vouchers: Ashley Bean Thornton: For the sake of our kids, let’s forget about vouchers and fund strategies that are already working (Ashley Bean Thornton, Waco Trib, 9.24.24)

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