SCHOOL CHOICE WOULD BENEFIT TEXAS AND RGV

     It's not a new thing about our public education, as we all know that it has been riled with low graduation rates, low state scores, and failing schools for years. The article "SCHOOL CHOICE WOULD BENEFIT TEXAS AND RGV" by Rafael Bejar and Christopher Gambini published in Texas Public Policy on Feb 5, 2017 offers a welcome solution for our educational system. The authors states that school choice is a conservative, liberty-loving, economically shrewd solution to our educational system. Above all, this educational reform would provide relief to Rio Grande Valley Texans.
    According to the Texas Education Agency's Public Education Grant List for 2017-18, there are 65 failing school districts in the Rio Grande Valley alone. This affect the children from low-income families, which has no resource to move or send their children to private schools other than getting stuck in failing schools even though the school is not meeting the needs of their children. Consequently, it is usually well-off families that can choose and find a good for their children, while the disadvantaged students are left without school choice.
   The article shows that in 2017 Legislature session, however Texas House and Senate members have the chance to embrace school choice and give parents the financial resources to find their children an adequate education. Our Texas elected officials have a opportunity this session to provide Educational Savings Accounts or a tax credit scholarship to Texas parents, and empower them to choose private school, to home-school, take online courses, provide tutoring or therapies- or any combination, which will best suit their children's unique educational needs. Also the Governor Greg Abott said in his State of the State Address: "Parents, not government, are best positioned to make decisions about their child's education. Parents should be empowered to choose the school that's best for their child."
  As every child should have a chance to succeed in life, School choice will give students of Texas an opportunity to get a better education, whereby they can harness their academic and intellectual potential. It is proven that school choice is truly a win-win solution and I think Texas House and Senate members should use their chance and should embrace policies that give every child a chance to succeed.