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The Austin Renaissance? Even School Choice Is Bigger in Texas

Austin’s independent spirit—and a billion dollars in voucher funding—will reshape classrooms and challenge government’s monopoly on childhood.
The Austin Renaissance? Even School Choice Is Bigger in Texas
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Hannah Frankman Hood
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The Texas frontier has once again been won, this time by the school choice movement. It wasn’t easy. Anti-school-choice lobbyists and teachers unions fought fiercely for years to keep the bill from passing, despite declining schools, chronic absenteeism, and barely half of Texas students meeting proficiency standards.
Hannah Frankman Hood
Hannah Frankman Hood
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Hannah Frankman Hood is the founder of renegadeEducator. She grew up homeschooled and skipped college to go straight into the startup world, and has now been working in alternative education for almost 10 years. She was previously a Program Manager at Praxis, a Hazlitt Fellow at the Foundation for Economic Education, and an instructor at The Objective Standard institute.