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SCOOP: Heritage has ousted one of its top scholars, Robert Rector, the intellectual architect of welfare reform who had challenged Heritage head Kevin Roberts last yr for his defense of Tucker Carlson. He had been w/ Heritage since 1984. (W/ @joshgerstein) politico.com/news/2026/11/07…

Texas lied to parents. They told parents that with school choice, they could let tax dollars follow the child. What really happened? Before vouchers, taxpayers funded public education, and parents who wanted private schooling had to pay for it themselves. Sadly, it meant they also paid taxes for public education, which is unfair and unjust. Now ALL taxpayers are still funding public schools while ALSO subsidizing private education through vouchers. We were told the money would follow the child, but that argument ignores the reality that public schools don't stop having expenses when a student leaves. That money set aside for vouchers didn't magically come from money saved when students left public schools. The Texas Legislature separately appropriated $1 billion in state revenue to establish the voucher program. Now the state has created an additional billion-dollar allocation for private-school vouchers. That's a separate public expense, NOT simply money following the child, as we were told. And they're paying more people to "manage" the system. Taxpayers are now helping pay for BOTH systems, while public schools still have to serve the children who remain. Why should all taxpayers ALSO have to subsidize someone else's private-school choice?