State money in parents’ hands: A look at Education Savings Accounts

AUSTIN (KXAN) — Key lawmakers are making plans to overhaul your child’s school during the next legislative session. The president of the Texas Senate, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick laid out his priorities in Dallas, including the idea of “Education Savings Accounts.”
Here’s how it would work. Right now, each student in public school gets $5,200 from the state. That tax money follows the student to their local school district. But under this new program, parents coul