TC Weber tracks down the latest in the ongoing fight over expanding school vouchers:
Take the voucher expansion bill.
The House recently amended its version, pushing the program to 35,000 students next year—an increase of 15,000.
The Senate? They want 40,000.
Because of course they do.
The House version also adjusts “hold harmless” funding—meaning districts would only receive funding for students who actually take vouchers, not for overall enrollment losses.
That’s not a small tweak.
That’s a structural shift.
And it has the potential to hit district budgets hard.
The big question now is whether there are enough votes to get anything across the finish line.
Republicans have a supermajority, but even within that, there’s division.
And when divisions show up this late in session, strange things can happen.
